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661
TWO BAMBOO SNUFF BOTTLES
1800-1900
The first of flattened oviform shape with raised panels on each main
face, one carved in intaglio with a six-character seal script inscription
reading song zhu zai duo yi mei lan (the pine and bamboo grow in
abundance, likewise the plum is admirable), the other side delicately
incised with a small building on a tree-lined shore; together with a
carved and lacquered bamboo bottle of wide flattened oval shape
carved in relief with crabs to one side and a buffalo under willow to the
other.
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high and 2 1/16in (5.3 cm) high, stoppers (2).

$700 - 1,000

1800-1900年 竹雕鼻煙壺兩隻

Provenance:
The incised bottle, Asiantiques, November 1992
The lacquered bottle, Frank Caro, October 1990

For a lengthy discussion of another bamboo bottle, presumably from
the same studio as ours (left illustration), attributed to Xinru (possibly
Wen Ruanxin) and of identical shape and similarly engraved with a
landscape scene on one panel and with a seal script panel on the
other, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of
Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 7,
Part 1, Organic, Metal, Mixed Media, pp. 47-48, no. 1482.

662
A CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER METAL-BODIED SNUFF
662 BOTTLE
1870-1920
Of large spade shape, carved in a continuous landscape scene,
one main face with two seated scholars near a pagoda and a small
building, all below a cloud collar and the other face with two standing
scholars in a similar setting, the narrow sides with slender upright
rockwork, two scrolling floral bands at the neck.
3in (7.6cm) high

$500 - 700

1870-1920年 剔紅山水樓閣人物鼻煙壺
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