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223 Y Shagreen, more correctly known as sharkskin, had been used in
A rare shagreen snuff bottle the Qing Court both for martial purposes such as sword hilts,
18th/19th century as well as for daily use as exemplified in an imperial spectacles
Of flattened globular form with flat lip and flat foot, the wood case from the Yongzheng period. See a similar shagreen snuff
body covered in a fine granular surface of shagreen, carnelian bottle in flattened rectangular form, illustrated by B.Stevens, The
stopper with mother-of-pearl finial. Collector’s Book of Snuff Bottles, New York and Tokyo, p.197,
4.9cm (2in) high (2). pl.720.
£6,000 - 8,000
HK$71,000 - 94,000 CNY56,000 - 75,000

十八/十九世紀 鯊魚皮鼻煙壺

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

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