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1026
A duanstone ‘dragon’ snuff bottle
1780-1850
Of high-shouldered tapering form, with a long waisted neck, flat lip, slightly inverted oval
foot ring, carved in low relief to one side between two faux lion mask-and-ring handles with
two vigorous dragons undulating through clouds, opposing to a roundel on the other side of
archaistic dragons in highly stylized form; the stone of dark chocolate brown.
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high
$2,500 - 4,000

Provenance
Sotheby’s, New York, 22 November 1988, lot 367
Estate of H. Van Rensselaer Wilson

Exhibited
Norton Museum of Art, September-November 1997

For a discussion on the series of Duanstone snuff bottles, see The Art of the Chinese Snuff
Bottle, Moss, Graham, Tsang, Weatherhill, New York, 1993, Vol. 1, pp. 151-158, nos. 84, 85.

Refer also to a comparable example from a Private Brazilian Collection, and formerly from
Hugh Moss, sold by Sotheby’s, New York, 23 March 2004, lot 185

端石雕螭龍鋪首啣環鼻煙壺

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