A tourmaline snuff bottle and snuff dish circa 1960
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A tourmaline snuff bottle and snuff dish
circa 1960
Of compressed globular form, rising from a flattened foot to a straight neck, the stone of semi-translucent rose pink hue, the dish of quatrelobed form with splayed sides on a short hollowed foot.
4.8cm high.
Sold for HK$ 43,750 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Exhibited:
    Chinese Snuff Bottles, jointly presented by Hong Kong Chinese Snuff Bottle Collectors Study Group and the Urban Council, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 15 October to 26 November 1977

    Illustrated:
    Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1977, p.99, pl.233

    約1960 碧璽光素鼻煙壺及煙碟

    展覽:
    香港中國鼻煙壺收藏家學會、香港市政局聯辦,《中國鼻煙壺》,香港藝術館,1977年10月15日至11月26日

    出版:
    《中國鼻煙壺》,香港藝術館,香港,1977年,頁99,圖版233

    壺呈扁圓瓶形,短直頸,平底,掏膛規整,簡約雅致。煙碟呈葵口形,與圈足一形狀一致。


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