Lot Essay
For a variation of this bottle, see Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles:5, p. 59, fig. 41
Details
A TURQUOISE AND AUBERGINE-GLAZED MOLDED PORCELAIN BOTTLE
19TH/20TH CENTURY
Molded as a squirrel clutching a grape vine, the details finely picked out, particularly the fur markings, the branch of the grape forming the bottle mouth, glaze chips to eyes and neck rim, stopper
19TH/20TH CENTURY
Molded as a squirrel clutching a grape vine, the details finely picked out, particularly the fur markings, the branch of the grape forming the bottle mouth, glaze chips to eyes and neck rim, stopper
Provenance
The Ko Family Collection
Sold Christie's London, June 12, 1972 (Part II), Lot 8
Sold Christie's London, June 12, 1972 (Part II), Lot 8