A MOULDED FAMILLE ROSE SNUFF BOTTLE

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A MOULDED FAMILLE ROSE SNUFF BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY

Moulded as Liuhai standing in loose robes with a three-legged toad and a string of cash around his neck, his chest revealed -matching hatlike stopper

Lot Essay

A bottle of this type was included in the Hong Kong Museum of Arts Exhibition, Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1977, Catalogue, p. 59, no. 112. Another is illustrated by Bob Stevens, The Collector's Book of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Tokyo, 1976, p. 131, no. 314.

(US$5,000-7,000)

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