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Lot 1183Y
Two carved cinnabar lacquer snuff bottles 19th Century
28 July 2009, 10:00 PDT
San FranciscoSold for US$854 inc. premium
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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
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














