A RARE DATED COCONUT BOTTLE

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A RARE DATED COCONUT BOTTLE
CYCLICAL DATE YI CHOU, PROBABLY CORRESPONDING TO 1865, POSSIBLY 1805

Of flattened moonflask shape, carved in relief on one side with two large characters, Da ji (great luck), within a gourd-shaped panel with dotted ground and red pigment, and a smaller gourd panel with the cyclical date, the other side with the characters Shuang xi (double happiness) in a circular panel, the neck with ivory inset, stopper

Lot Essay

For another coconut bottle using the same unusual combination of materials, ivory, coconut and coral stopper, see Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of John Ault, 1990, Catalogue, col. pl. 109

For other coconut bottles see Christie's, New York, November 29, 1990, lot 128; and Chris Randall, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, Catalogue, col. pl. 31, for a bottle also carved with a reserve cartouche