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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
1649
A CARVED RED LACQUER SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL, 1780-1880
The snuf bottle is fnely carved in high relief with a phoenix fying amidst The present bottle belongs to a group of carved red lacquer bottles of a
clouds on the front and back, and the narrow sides are carved with elongated distinctive style, and may be the mid-Qing continuation of a well-known,
rocky promontories, all below a band of pendent acanthus leaves on the neck. eighteenth-century Imperial group. See two other examples of this group
2 in. (6.6 cm.) high, gilt-metal stopper, cloth box illustrated in Chinese Snuf Bottles: A Miniature Art from the Collection of
Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1994, nos. 262 and 263. The present
bottle features phoenix, or fenghuang, as the main decoration, which may
$6,000-8,000
well suggest that it could have been made for the Court, since the phoenix
came to represent the empress in the Qing dynasty.
PROVENANCE
Knapton Rasti, London, 17 June 2002. 1780-1880年 剔紅鳳鳥紋鼻煙壺
J & J Collection.
J & J Collection, Part V; Christie’s New York, 17 September 2008, lot 82.
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