A ROCK CRYSTAL 'ONE HUNDRED SHOU CHARACTER' BOTTLE

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A ROCK CRYSTAL 'ONE HUNDRED SHOU CHARACTER' BOTTLE
1800-1900

Of flattened spade shape, carved on each side in low relief with fifty stylized shou characters
2½in. (6.3cm.) high, stopper

Lot Essay

This bottle appears to be based on the earlier Palace Workshop examples in bamboo and red lacquer. For a bamboo example see Christie's, New York, December 1-2, 1994, lot 529, and for a red lacquer bottle see Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of the Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter, K.C.M.G, p. 14, O.29