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A FINE AMBER BOTTLE

Details

A FINE AMBER BOTTLE
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Of rounded rectangular shape, extremely well hollowed and of honey- brown transparent tone with attractive darker veining, the narrow sides carved and softly polished with low-relief lion-mask fixed-ring handles, the amber with crizzling-like markings throughout--2½in. (6.3cm.) high, stopper

Provenance

L. H. Langston Collection, Rumsen, New Jersey
Sotheby's, New York, September 29, 1977, lot 77

Lot Essay

For a similar bottle see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, p. 258, no. 387, and for another refer to Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 1987, Catalogue, pp. 14-15, no. 4