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A rock crystal clock face snuff bottle
98 | BONHAMS 1750-1860
Superbly well-hollowed, the rounded rectangular bottle supported
by a neatly finished oval foot ring, its cylindrical neck decorated with
a carefully incised key-fret band surrounding a thin and recessed
lip, carved and relief and incised with a with a clock face on each
side, one incised with Roman numerals and the other with Chinese
numerals, the narrow sides surmounted with two raised animal mask-
and-ring handles; the transparent stone with limited fissure lines.
2 3/8in (6cm) high
$1,800 - 2,500
Provenance
Asiantiques, acquired 14 October 1995 New York Armory Show
Sam Denham, Florida
Exhibited
Jacksonville Art Museum, Florida, 1990
