Lot 426
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A FINE IVORY GOURD-SHAPED BOTTLE

Details
A FINE IVORY GOURD-SHAPED BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY

Delicately carved in high relief with many areas reticulated with gourd tendrils with fruit and leafy foliage, a mantis and a dragonfly each carved to one side of the lower section of gourd, the ivory of even yellowish tone, original stopper

Lot Essay

For a similar bottle in the Natural History Museum, New York, see Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, no.756; another sold Sotheby's, New York, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Dr. Paula Hallett, December 2, 1985, lot 68, and for another see John Gilmore Ford, Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Edward Choale O'Dell Collection, no.80