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LOT 0445
Chinese Erotic Glass Snuff Bottle, Signed Sun Ing Wu
DATED JUNE 1948 A.D.
2 in. (66 grams, 96 mm high).
Painted with a nude reclining female in domestic surrounds to the interior, characters painted to side and reverse; orange cabochon to lid.
Provenance
Property of a lady, from her grandfather's collection, 1960s-1970s; thence by descent.
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