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A RED-BROWN JASPER SPADE-SHAPED SNUFF BOTTLE Literature:
1830-1910 Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Bob C. Stevens Collection, Catalogue,
With short spreading neck, two conforming panels on each main 1978, Mikimoto Hall, Tokyo, no. 158
face, one carved with a Manchu bannerman on horseback in a rocky
landscape, the other with Liuhai and assistant teasing the magical Exhibition:
three-legged toad amidst lotus and rockwork, all set against a diaper- Mikimoto Hall, Tokyo, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Bob C. Stevens
cell ground; stopper. Collection, October, 1978.
2 1/8in (5.4cm) high
This bottle was clearly made in imitation of cinnabar lacquer as
$3,000 - 4,000 evidenced by the choice of colored stone, the spade shape and the
delicately carved diaper cell ground to indicate air and water. For an
1830-1910 仿剔紅紅碧石刻人物鼻煙壺 example in lacquer see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and ka Bo Tsang,
The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Vol. II, pp.
Provenance: 529-530, no. 311.
Ko Family Collection, Torino
Christie’s, London, The Ko Family Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles,
14 June 1971, lot 135
Bob C. Stevens
Sotheby’s Park Bernet, New York, Fine and Important Chinese Snuff
Bottles from the Collection of Bob C. Stevens, Part III, 25 June 1982,
lot 125
Elsa Glickman, New York
Bonhams, New York, Chinese Snuff Bottles From American Collections
(including property from the Elsa Glickman Collection), 12 September
2016, lot 9008

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