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A CARVED MOTHER-OF-PEARL SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY GUANGZHOU, 1760-1850
The bottle is carved from lustrous pearly-white shell on one side with a scene of a fgure
looking out of an abode towards a sampan which is carved from a raised area of pale russet
color, the reverse is carved with two Westerners and a dog beneath a plantain tree.
2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper
$12,000-18,000

PROVENANCE

Wheatley Antiques, London, 2002.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2006.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3815.

EXHIBITED

Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection,
23-26 September 2008.

A similar bottle from the collection of Lilla Perry was sold in The Ruth and Carl Barron
of Fine Chinese Snuf Bottles: Part II, Christie’s New York, 16 March 2016, lot 574. For
another similar bottle, and discussion about mother-of-pearl bottles, see Moss, Graham,
Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuf Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 3,
Hong Kong, 1998, p. 192, no. 436.
1760-1850年 珍珠母貝雕亭臺人物圖鼻煙壺

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