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A CARVED AMBER SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1850
The transparent walls of the honey-colored bottle are carved with two Buddhist lions
on one side, and a recumbent elephant supporting a vase containing lotus blossoms
on its back on the reverse.
2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper
$4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE
The Reif Collection of Chinese Snuf Bottles; Christie’s New York, 18 October 1993, lot 86.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1486.
The combination of a vase (ping) and an elephant (xiang) provides a homonym
for the rebus taiping youxiang (‘May there be a peaceful reign’).
1750-1850年 琥珀雕太平有象圖鼻煙壺

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