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Lot 1184
A carved turquoise snuff bottle Late Qing/Republic Period
28 July 2009, 10:00 PDT
San FranciscoSold for US$610 inc. premium
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Late Qing/Republic Period
Of pear form, carved in high relief on one side with a beauty holding a basket in one hand, the other hand raised in the air and holding a flower spray, a young boy standing behind her, the reverse side depicting a sage and a boy, the bottle also detailed with a gnarled pine tree and peonies, the original stopper carved with a boy wearing an exaggerated string of beads.
6.8cm high
Of pear form, carved in high relief on one side with a beauty holding a basket in one hand, the other hand raised in the air and holding a flower spray, a young boy standing behind her, the reverse side depicting a sage and a boy, the bottle also detailed with a gnarled pine tree and peonies, the original stopper carved with a boy wearing an exaggerated string of beads.
6.8cm high
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. 48, no. S-9.














