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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.

CONDITION

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LOT 0445

Chinese Erotic Glass Snuff Bottle, Signed Sun Ing Wu

Sold for (Inc. bp): £910

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