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A LARGE AND UNUSUAL CHALCEDONY SNUFF BOTTLE Exhibited:
Official School, 1800 - 1880 International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
Of flattened rounded shape with a concave mouth and a raised oval New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 103
foot rim, a striking snowy crystalline inclusion suggestive of a mountain
to each side and bordered with an ochre, red and green marked For another bottle using a similar material, formerly in the famous Ko
bamboo-like band on a semi-transparent dark honey ground that Family Collection, and then the Quentin Loh Sze On Collection, see
surrounds the inclusion over the entire body, well hollowed; stopper. Vanessa F. Holden, Chinese Snuff Bottles, NUS Museums, Singapore,
2 1/2in (6.3cm) high 2002, p. 49, no. 184. Another was illustrated in the catalogue, Chinese
Snuff Bottles from The Fernhill Park Collection, The Chinese Porcelain
$3,500 - 5,000 Company, New York, 1991,p. 31, no. 135.

1800-1880 頒賜類 巧色瑪瑙鼻煙壺 A smaller example is illustrated by Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff
Bottles from the Collection of the Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter,
Provenance: K.C.M.G., London, 1974, pp.114-115, no. Q.8.
Janos Szekeres The Bellis Collection
The Albemarle Collection (Carolyn Wilcox) Robert Kleiner, 9 July 2004

Literature:
ICSBS, Journal, June, 1975, p. 8
Robert Kleiner, The Bellis Collection: Card Catalogue, Hong Kong,
1993, no. 47
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Albemarle Collection,
Part 1, Hong Kong, 1994, no. 39

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