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A DENDRITIC CHALCEDONY SNUFF BOTTLE For another agate bottle depicting Liu Hai and his three-legged toad,
Official School, 1750-1850 see Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 3-4 December 2015, lot 655.. For further
Of spherical spade shape with cylindrical neck, a natural encircled discussion of Liu Hai and his mythical toad, see Michael C. Hughes,
dark inclusion to one side has been cleverly utilized with the addition The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Baltimore,
of carving to depict Lui Hai’s magical three-legged toad supporting 2009, pp. 36-37, no 22. Liu Hai is usually depicted as a boy or a
a small daoist pavilion on a plume of vapor that rises from its mouth young man wearing bangs across his forehead and a robe that is
silhouetted against the moon, whilst on the other side, carved in low drawn open across his chest. He carries a string of cash and is often
relief and again using the darker swirling and dotted inclusions, Lui depicted teasing the three-legged toad. He is revered as the god
Hai is depicted with his string of cash dressed in flowing robes and of wealth. See also Therese Tse Bartholomew, Hidden Meanings in
gesticulating, with a mythical chilong flying behind; stopper. Chinese Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2006, p. 150, no.
1 7/8in (4.8cm) high 6.24.
$4,000 - 6,000

1750-1850 頒賜類 瑪瑙巧刻劉海鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Pat Miller, Hawaii
Robert Kleiner, The Pat Miller Collection, 1 October 2005

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 113

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