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AN AMBER PIG-FORM SNUFF BOTTLE A closely related amber pig-form snuff bottle from the Mary
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY and George Bloch collection, illustrated in Hugh Moss, Victor
5.1 cm, 2 in. Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff
Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 7, Hong
PROVENANCE Kong, 2009, no. 1596, was sold in these rooms, 1st June
2015, lot 20.
Collection of H.R.N. Norton.
Sotheby’s London, 5th November 1963, lot 125. See also another rare amber pig-form snuff bottle from the
The Kurt Graf Blucher von Wahlstatt (Count Blucher) collection of Christopher Sin, illustrated by Humphrey Hui,
Collection. An Addicted Dedication, Book I, Hong Kong, 2013, cat. no.
Hugh Moss Ltd, London, 26th February 1972 (£1,500). 320, where the author points out that pigs are an ancient
symbol of wealth. They also insinuate wealth, with chushou
LITERATURE (front trotters) being a pun for hangjiu chushou (‘unexpected
Hugh M. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, London, 1971, p. 97, money is at hand’).
no. 158.
HK$ 60,000-80,000
US$ 7,700-10,500

清十八世紀 琥珀豬形鼻煙壺
來源：
H.R.N. Norton 收藏
倫敦蘇富比1963年11月5日，編號125
布盧徹伯爵 Kurt Graf Blucher von Wahlstatt 收藏
莫士撝，倫敦，1972年2月26日（£1,500）
出版：
莫士撝，《Snuff Bottles of China》，倫敦，1971年，
頁97，編號158

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