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Lot 1183Y

Two carved cinnabar lacquer snuff bottles
19th Century

28 July 2009, 10:00 PDT
San Francisco

Sold for US$854 inc. premium

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Two carved cinnabar lacquer snuff bottles

19th Century
The first of flattened spherical form, carved with a continuous scene of scholars and their attendants in a mountainside pavilion setting, green glass stopper; the second in the shape of a moonflask carved against a geometric and flower-patterned background with opposing scenes of an immortal and a young boy standing in a landscape, coral stopper with gilt metal collar.
7.6cm height of each

Footnotes

Provenance: formerly in the collection of Harriet Hamilton, a decendent of Claus Spreckels

Published & Illustrated: Hamilton, Harriet Halbrook, Oriental Snuff Bottles, Palo Alto, Mayfield Pub., 1977, p. 17, no. O-83, O-87

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