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A RARE COCONUT SNUFF BOTTLE Exhibited:
1810-1900, signed by Xu Youshi International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
Of compressed oval shape with convex main sides joined by small New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 42
dowels along the narrow edges, carved with leaves trailing down the
narrow sides and with a twenty-character inscription followed by the In the ICSBS Journal, Autumn 2014, pp.8-9, fig. 59, in an article
signature on one main face and with incised prunus blossom on the entitled ‘Coconut Shell Snuff Bottles, Part II’, the authors illustrate
other, below a simple soft-metal petal-form collar at the opening; both sides of this bottle and describe the calligraphy as probably
stopper. representing a couplet of two seven-syllable lines, though with difficulty
2 3/8in (6cm) high identifying some of the characters. This is followed by a dedication to
the third elder Yeru.
$5,000 - 7,000
For other signed coconut bottles variously dated to the nineteenth
1810-1900 椰殼梅花紋刻銘鼻煙壺 《許友石》款 century see, Bonhams, Hong Kong, The Mary and George Bloch
Collection, Part I, 28 May 2010, lot 66, dated 1875 (or 1815) and
Provenance: Bonhams, New York, 17 March 2014, lot 8014.
Robert C. Eldred, 23 August 1989, lot 292

Literature:
Hugh Moss and Stuart Sargent, ICSBS Journal, Autumn 2014, pp.8-9,
fig. 59

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