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A DUAN INKSTONE 'COILING DRAGON' SNUFF BOTTLE 1750-1820 image 1
A DUAN INKSTONE 'COILING DRAGON' SNUFF BOTTLE 1750-1820 image 2
PROPERTY FROM THE FRANCINE AND BERNARD WALD COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
Lot 252

A DUAN INKSTONE 'COILING DRAGON' SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1820

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

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A DUAN INKSTONE 'COILING DRAGON' SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1820
Of regular flattened rounded shape, one main face carved in low relief with a coiling dragon with a plume spray emitting from its mouth, centered with a natural 'eye' in the stone to form a magic pearl, the reverse side with two large and two small stylized confronted archaistic dragons forming a single 'long' character within an intaglio oval panel, the narrow sides with lion-mask and fixed-ring handles.
2 1/16in (5.2cm)

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1750-1820 端石刻開光壽龍帶舖首啣環鼻煙壺一件

For a similar example see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles XI, The Snowy Peaks Collection (Pamela R. Lessing Friedman), Hong Kong, 2005, no. 72

For a discussion of the group, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, New York and Tokyo, 1993, pp. 151-156, no. 84, and the use of this distinctive stone, used primarily for ink stones and located in Guangdong province.

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