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Lot Essay
For a similar example with red rutile needles see Sotheby's, New York, The Mei Ling Collection, 15 March 1984, lot 84.
For another with fewer needles, see Clare Lawrence, Miniature Masterpieces from the Middle Kingdom, The Monimar Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, 1996, pp. 102-103, no. 45, where the author discusses 'hair crystal', which refers to the combination of the crystalline quartz which contains fibre-like inclusions of impurities of other materials, such as rutile, tourmaline, actinolite and chlorite
For another with fewer needles, see Clare Lawrence, Miniature Masterpieces from the Middle Kingdom, The Monimar Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, 1996, pp. 102-103, no. 45, where the author discusses 'hair crystal', which refers to the combination of the crystalline quartz which contains fibre-like inclusions of impurities of other materials, such as rutile, tourmaline, actinolite and chlorite