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A SILVER-INLAID BLACK LACQUER ‘BIRD AND A SILVER-INLAID BLACK LACQUER ‘BRONZE
WILLOW’ SNUFF BOTTLE INSCRIPTION’ SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY SHANDONG, QING DYNASTY, 1860-1910 QING DYNASTY, PROBABLY 1890
The bottle is inlaid with silver on lacquer on one main side The wood bottle is covered in black lacquer and inlaid with
with a swallow in flight above a willow tree, the other side with silver-wire, on one side with a copy of an ancient bronze
sixteen characters in seal script. Together with a silver-inlaid inscription followed by the seals ji ‘auspicious’ and jin ‘gold’;
lacquer ‘bird and branch’ snuff dish. the other side with a seal-script inscription copied from a Han-
Bottle: 22 in. (5.6 cm.) high, coral stopper; dynasty brick reading Erqianshi gonghou shougui, ‘Lord with a
Dish: 2¿ in. (5.5 cm.) diam. (2) two-thousand stone stipend: long life and honour’, preceded
by a transcription in regular script and followed by the date
HK$8,000-10,000 US$1,100-1,300 gengyin suo zuo ‘Made in the gengyin cyclical year’. The foot
PROVENANCE is inlaid in seal script with Junong zhenwan ‘For Junong to
Bottle: The Arthur Gadsby Collection, Hong Kong treasure and appreciate’. Together with a silver-inlaid lacquer
Sold at Sotheby’s London, 13 June 2003, lot 728 dish with the characters yannian ‘prolonged life’.
Bottle: 2¡ in. (6.1 cm.) high, jadeite stopper,
Dish: 13 in. (3.3 cm.) diam. (2)
清1860-1910年 黑漆錯銀絲柳燕圖鼻煙壺
（連黑漆錯銀絲鼻煙碟） HK$32,000-50,000 US$4,200-6,500
PROVENANCE
款識：安成家銅鼎，容一升，蓋重十五斤，第十六
Bottle: Arthur Loveless
Elizabeth and Ladislas Kardos
來源 The Mary and George Bloch Collection, sold at Bonhams Hong
壺：Arthur Gadsby珍藏，香港 Kong, 23 November 2010, lot 134
倫敦蘇富比，2003年6月13日，拍品728號 Dish: Robert Hall, London, April 1998

This item can only be shipped to addresses within Hong Kong or collected from our LITERATURE
Hong Kong saleroom and office. Bottle: Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury
此拍賣品只可運送至香港境內的地址或從我們的香港拍賣場提取。 of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection,
vol. 7, Hong Kong, 2009, no. 1646
Hugh Moss and Stuart Sargent, The Water Pine and Stone
Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles. Part Two. Non-Imperial
Influence over the Snuff Bottle Arts, Hong Kong, 2019, no.
36.1.288

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