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A CINNABAR RED AND ORANGE LACQUER 'MELONS AND BUTTERFLIES' SNUFF BOTTLE 1730-1820 image 1
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PROPERTY FROM THE FRANCINE AND BERNARD WALD COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
Lot 213

A CINNABAR RED AND ORANGE LACQUER 'MELONS AND BUTTERFLIES' SNUFF BOTTLE
1730-1820

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

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A CINNABAR RED AND ORANGE LACQUER 'MELONS AND BUTTERFLIES' SNUFF BOTTLE

1730-1820
Of spade shape, carved in relief in a continuous scene with two butterflies on each side, in flight amidst melons, trailing vines and a single prunus blossom above an orange lacquer ground with a dense diaper cell pattern, set between a key-pattern band at the foot with a flat oval base carved with a stylized shou character and with a ruyi-collar at the shoulder and a chevron band at the everted neck with a flat gilt-copper rim and small mouth.
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high, stopper

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1730-1820 剔彩刻「瓜瓞綿綿」鼻煙壺一件

For a very similar cinnabar red lacquer bottle with melons and butterflies, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles, The White Wings Collection, Hong Kong, 1997, pp. 210-211, no. 146; another with smaller butterflies and bigger melons, see Snuff Bottles of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1978, p. 92, no. 136 and p. 136, no. 136

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