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A WELL-CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER SNUFF BOTTLE
Qianlong period, 1736-95
Of flattened spade shape, very delicately carved to a darker level
below with a continuous scene with melons on a trailing leafy vine with
composite flowerheads of prunus and possibly peony dividing ruyi-
lappets at the foot and shoulder and with a cell-pattern band at the
waisted neck, coppery metal mouth and foot.
2 1/2in (6.4cm) high, stopper

$6,000 - 9,000
1736-1795年 剔紅瓜瓞連綿紋鼻煙壺

Provenance:
JWA international, Inc., Aug 1989

Illustrated:
ICSBS Journal, Summer, 1991, cover

A very similar cinnabar lacquer bottle with a spreading rather than a
waisted neck, is illustrated by Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles
from the Collection of the Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter, K.C.M.G.,
London, 1974, pp.16-17, O.32. It is also illustrated in the catalogue,
Snuff Bottles of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978,
p. 92, no. 136 (and col. pl. on p. 136).

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