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AN UNUSUAL-SUBJECT THREE-COLOR JASPER 'CLAM, SNIPE, MONKEY AND BEE' SNUFF BOTTLE 1750-1860 image 1
AN UNUSUAL-SUBJECT THREE-COLOR JASPER 'CLAM, SNIPE, MONKEY AND BEE' SNUFF BOTTLE 1750-1860 image 2
PROPERTY FROM THE FRANCINE AND BERNARD WALD COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
Lot 197

AN UNUSUAL-SUBJECT THREE-COLOR JASPER 'CLAM, SNIPE, MONKEY AND BEE' SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1860

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

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AN UNUSUAL-SUBJECT THREE-COLOR JASPER 'CLAM, SNIPE, MONKEY AND BEE' SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1860
Of large, rounded spade shape, unusually carved to one side using a rust-red layer with a coastal scene with a startled or excited snipe observing a clam self-propelling in a body of water, and to the other side with a more common subject of a monkey with a stick, seated on rockwork, below an angry bee having had its nest poked, the lapidary using two layers of honey-brown against a green ground, below a cylindrical neck with concave rim and small mouth, supported on a short foot with a wide, slightly rounded, oval foot ring and convex base.
2 1/2in (6.3cm) high, stopper

Footnotes

1750-1860 三色碧石巧雕動物圖鼻煙壺一件

Provenance:
Alex S. Cussons Collection

Literature:
Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group, p. 45, no. 122 (both sides illustrated).

來源:
Alex S. Cussons珍藏

出版:
莫士撝,《Chinese Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group》, 45頁,編號122(雙面圖)

The subject of the clam and snipe is based on the Chinese proverb "in the fight between the snipe and the clam, the fisherman has the best of it". While the clam and snipe argue a fisherman nets them both.

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