Lot 371
371
A CORAL BOTTLE

Details
A CORAL BOTTLE
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

Of irregular vase shape, carved with Liuhai clambering in the branches of a pomegranate tree, suspending a single cash above his mythical three-legged toad, the foot carved as tree branches, some wax infills, stopper

Lot Essay

For other coral bottles with similar scenes see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Kaynes-Klitz Collection, Part II, October 30, 1990, lot 231; Hugh M. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, col. pl. 91, no. 122; and Sotheby's, New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Janos Szekeres, Part I, October 27, 1986, lot 155