Lot Essay
The seal, Rui Ting, can be read as 'Auspicious Pavilion'.
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BASE INCISED WITH TWO-CHARACTER SEAL, RUI TING, 1800-1880
Details
A SMALL AMBER BOTTLE
Base incised with two-character seal, Rui Ting, 1800-1880
Of miniature pear shape, with attractive creamy swirling inclusions and other transparent areas, the shoulders carved with lion-mask fixed-ring handles, stopper
1¾in. (4.4cm.) high
Base incised with two-character seal, Rui Ting, 1800-1880
Of miniature pear shape, with attractive creamy swirling inclusions and other transparent areas, the shoulders carved with lion-mask fixed-ring handles, stopper
1¾in. (4.4cm.) high
Provenance
Bob C. Stevens Collection
Sotheby's, New York, 26 March 1982, lot 188
Sotheby's, New York, 26 March 1982, lot 188
Literature
Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, Tokyo, 1976, pp. 178-179, no. 707