Lot Essay
For a similar bottle see Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles:5, fig. 30
Details
AN UNUSUAL WOOD BOTTLE
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Of flattened spade shape, carved with a continuous scene around the body depicting a seated scholar and attendant under pine amidst a variety of craggy rockwork, a small retreat and other vegetation, surface wear, some neck restoration, age cracks, stopper
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Of flattened spade shape, carved with a continuous scene around the body depicting a seated scholar and attendant under pine amidst a variety of craggy rockwork, a small retreat and other vegetation, surface wear, some neck restoration, age cracks, stopper
Provenance
Mrs. Elmer A. Claar, Chicago
Sold Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, December 2, 1969 (Part One), lot 49
Sold Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, December 2, 1969 (Part One), lot 49