Lot 499
499
OTHER PROPERTIES
A FINE ROCK CRYSTAL BOTTLE

Details
A FINE ROCK CRYSTAL BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY

Of flattened ovoid shape, the stone with an attractive network of white 'seaspray' inclusions, the shoulders with fixed-ring and mask handles, stopper
Provenance
The Kardos Collection, no. 516

Sotheby's, New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Kardos Collection, July 1, 1985, lot 85
Further details
See illustration preceding page

Lot Essay

For other rock crystal bottles of different form, but with attractive inclusions, see Helen White, Snuff Bottles from China, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, 1992, col. pl. 42, no. 1, and Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, col. pl. 465