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AN ENGRAVED AND GILT ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE
the bottle 1780-1850, the decoration later
Of rounded rectangular shape, the shoulders and narrow sides carved
with lion-mask elongated fixed-ring handles, an engraved scene
of a boat in a lake or coastal landscape on one side, the reverse
with two swallows darting beneath a willow tree, and blossoming
prunus；stopper.
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high
$3,000 - 5,000

紋飾：后加 水晶陰刻填金「西湖春曉」圖帶舖首啣環鼻煙壺
壺：1780-1850

Provenance:
Dolly Keyston
Robert Kleiner, The Dolly Keyston Collection, 20 September 2007

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 131

For a flawless crystal bottle with later engraved and gilt decoration, see
Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese
Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2, Part 2,
Quartz, pp. 493-497, no. 363, where the author discusses the dating
of the engraving and gilt decoration. It was later sold at Sotheby’s,
Hong Kong, Snuff Bottles from the Mary and George Bloch Collection:
Part X, 1 June 2015, lot 77.

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