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           A GROUP OF FIVE SNUFF BOTTLES
           QING DYNASTY
           comprising an agate silhouette bottle; an inside-painted glass
           ‘bird and peony’ bottle; an inside-painted ‘horses’ bottle,
           signed Tang Zichuan and dated renyin year (1902); and two
           cinnabar lacquer bottles
           5.3 to 6.5 cm, 2⅛ to 2½ in.

           PROVENANCE
           Collection of Emil Hultmark (1872-1943), and thence by
           descent in the family.
           EXHIBITED
           Emil Hultmarks Samling [Emil Hultmark Collection], Royal
           Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, 1942, cat. nos 657,
           658 and 690.
           HK$ 20,000-30,000
           US$ 2,600-3,850
           清   鼻煙壺一組五件
                                                                   Catalogue entries for the 1942 exhibition.
           左一:「岩生壬寅仲冬四月都門湯子川作」字
           來源:
           Emil Hultmark (1872-1943年) 舊藏,此後家族傳承                       14
           展覽:                                                        AN AMBER ‘DEER AND MONKEY’ GROUP ON
           《Emil Hultmarks Samling》,瑞典皇家藝術院,斯德哥                       AN IVORY STAND
           爾摩,1942年,編號657,658及690                                     QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
                                                                      finely carved in the form of a spotted deer beneath a gnarled
                                                                      pine tree bearing clusters of needles, standing beside a
                                                                      monkey seated on jagged rocks, the well-patinated amber of
                                                                      a deep reddish-orange colour, the green-stained ivory stand
                                                                      carved with leafy prunus and pine
                                                                      5.8 cm, 2¼ in.

                                                                      PROVENANCE
                                                                      Collection of Emil Hultmark (1872-1943), and thence by
                                                                      descent in the family.
                                                                      EXHIBITED
                                                                      Emil Hultmarks Samling [Emil Hultmark Collection], Royal
                                                                      Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, 1942, cat. no. 651.
                                                                    ◉   HK$ 15,000-20,000
                                                                      US$ 1,950-2,600
                                                                      Compare similar 18th century amber carvings from the
                                                                      Qing court collection and still in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
                                                                      illustrated in Xu Xiaodong, ‘Qingdai Gongting hupo yishu [The
                                                                      Art of Amber in the Qing Court]’,Wenwu/Chinese Cultural
                                                                      Relics, 2011 (3), p. 84, pl. 12.

                                                                      清十八世紀   琥珀爵祿封侯擺件 配 象牙底座
                                                                      來源:
                                                                      Emil Hultmark (1872-1943年) 舊藏,此後家族傳承
                                                                      展覽:
                                                                      《Emil Hultmarks Samling》,瑞典皇家藝術院,斯德哥
                                                                      爾摩,1942年,編號651

                                                                      可作比較一清宮舊藏例,藏北京故宮博物院,載於許曉
                                                                      東,《清代宮廷琥珀藝術》,〈文物〉,2011 年, 3 期,
                                                                      頁84,圖版12。
            Catalogue entry for the 1942 exhibition.
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