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82 | BONHAMS AN EMBELLISHED CHALCEDONY SNUFF BOTTLE
The bottle: 1860-1930, embellishment: Tsuda family, Kyoto, Japan,
20th century
The well-hollowed bottle decorated with applied stones, carved and
painted in lacquer, gilt, and color depicting an elaborately dressed
female figure and her attendants walking in a colorful garden filled with
trees and blooming flowers, the narrow sides mounted with two faux
lion mask-and-ring handles.
2 3/8in (6cm) high
US$2,000 - 3,000
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TWO SNUFF BOTTLES
19th/early 20th century
The first a bamboo bottle, skillfully carved in impressive details to
depict figures enjoying an idle leisure moment at a fenced courtyard
surrounded by lush trees; the second a Yixing pottery bottle of
flattened meiping form, the main side lightly incised with an egret under
a pine, reversed by a terrace scene.
2 3/4 and 2 1/4in (7 and 5.7cm) high
US$1,500 - 2,500
