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Snuff Bottles

Property from the Collection of Margaret Polak
Lot 6138Y

A carved hornbill snuff bottle
1800-1880

23 August 2010, 10:00 PDT
San Francisco

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A carved hornbill snuff bottle

1800-1880
Of rounded rectangular form with flat lip and recessed foot surrounded by an oval foot rim, carved in relief on both sides with panels filled with women in a garden setting under willows and pines, flanked by side panels of dragons, hornbill stopper with vinyl collar.
2 1/4in (5.8cm) high

Footnotes

Provenance:
purchased February, 1982

Exhibited:
Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia, 1991
Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, July, 2000

Illustrated:
Hidden Treasures of the Dragon (1991), cat. no. 155

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