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A rare reticulated soapstone snuff bottle
18th/19th century
Of flattened gourd form resting on an oval flat base, intricately carved in
openwork on each side with two panels forming a double gourd shape
to reveal the inner bottle, the neck flanked by two phoenix heads in high
relief, with the scrolling bodies extending down the narrow sides, the bottle
extensively and meticulously incised and gilded with stylised waves, the
stone of a pale green tone with russet-red inclusions, stopper.
4.6cm (1 4/5in) high (2).
£5,000 - 8,000
HK$59,000 - 94,000 CNY47,000 - 75,000
十八/十九世紀 壽山石鏤雕雙鳳耳鼻煙壺
Provenance: A European private collection and thence by descent
來源：歐洲私人收藏，並由家族繼承下去
See a related example of a soapstone snuff bottle with similar pierced
openwork in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by
H.White, Snuff Bottles from China: The Victoria and Albert Museum
Collection, London, 1992, p.66, pl.26.
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