A RARE INCISED COCONUT SHELL SNUFF BOTTLE
A RARE INCISED COCONUT SHELL SNUFF BOTTLE

SIGNED YUN YING, 1810-1900

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A RARE INCISED COCONUT SHELL SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED YUN YING, 1810-1900
Of flattened ovoid form, incised on one side with an excerpt of a Wang Wei poem reading "the moon shines through the pine trees, the clear stream flows above the rocks," further inscribed "composed seven days after the mid-Autumn Festival at Baiyun Studio in Beixia," followed by the signature Yun Ying and an illegible square seal, the reverse delicately incised with a scene of a falcon perched in the branches of a pine tree, coral stopper
2½ in. (6.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Hartman Rare Art, 1971.

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