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A WHITE AND RUSSET-FLECKED TORTOISE-FORM 'BIXIE' For an example in the Palace Museum, see Snuff Bottles, The
JADE BOTTLE Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong,
1750-1830 2003, p. 145, no. 216.
Of naturalistic shape depicting a mythical tortoise beast (Bixie) with
antlered head and raised busy tail that rises from the narrow end over For two similar examples, possibly from the same workshop, see
the hexagonally marked carapace and including the russet inclusion, Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York and
the underside with bifurcated ribbed belly and four paw feet, all quite Tokyo, 1976, pp. 112-113, no. 359; and Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff
well hollowed. Bottles, The White Wings Collection, Hong Kong, 1997, pp. 47-48,
2 1/8in (5.2cm) high, stopper no. 24, where the authors discuss a known group of perhaps a dozen
recorded, and presumably from the same workshop that produced
$5,500 - 7,000 other animal-form snuff bottles.

1750-1830 白玉帶棕沁神獸形鼻煙壺一件 For two others dated to the eighteenth century, see Pamela R. Lessing
Friedman, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Pamela R. Lessing Friedman
Provenance: Collection, Denver, 1990, pp. 102-103, nos. 79-80.
Robert Hall, London
The bixie is a mythical beast with the carapace of a tortoise, the paws
來源： of a lion, the head of a dragon, and the tail of a qilin and said to be one
Robert Hall，倫敦 of the nine sons of the dragon.

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