Footnotes

• The indistinct incised characters appear to read xiao song (lit. 'little pine'), which may possibly refer to the name of the carver.
  
  It is believed that conch-shaped snuff bottles first originated from Fuzhou, where conches of this type were mostly found along the Fuzhou coastline. Existing similar examples are mostly unsigned. For a similar but unsigned example, see Moss, Graham and Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol.7, Hong Kong, 2009, pp.146-147, no.1527, sold in these rooms, 25 May 2011, lot 137. For another example, see Clare Lawrence, Miniature Masterpieces from the Middle Kingdom - The Monimar Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1996, pp.36-37, no. 12.146.
  
  清 1800-1880 福州作 棕色漆海螺形鼻煙壺
  
  壺呈海螺形，造型輕巧，深褐色漆地塗上棕黃色點，以筆繪畫出紋理，唯妙唯肖，上有印款，大概可讀成「小松」。由於此類海螺在福州沿海比較多，相信是福州一帶作的。
  
  傳世的例子皆以沒有落款的為多，相近例子可參見莫士撝, Victor Graham 及曾嘉寶著，《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection 》，第7冊，第一部份，頁146-147，編號1527，後拍賣於香港邦瀚斯，瑪麗及莊智博鼻煙壺珍藏：第三部份，2011年5月25日，拍品編號137。另一件例子載於Clare Lawrence著, 《Miniature Masterpieces from the Middle Kingdom - The Monimar Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles》, 1996, 頁36-37, 編號12.146。

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