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拍品专文
This unusual material comes from the fossilized tusks of the extinct Paleolithic-era wooly mammoth. It is recorded that in the Kangxi period, Chinese traders went to Siberia seeking to buy mammoth tooth ivory, and by 1910 more than twenty-thousand tusks had been excavated. Mammoth tooth ivory is difficult to hollow out and polish, making bottles made from this material quite rare.
For another rare, early mammoth tooth example, see B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, nos. 682 and 1020. See, also, another early mammoth tooth bottle, complete with a matching stopper, illustrated in R. Kleiner, Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Denis Low, Singapore, 1999, no. 223.
For another rare, early mammoth tooth example, see B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, nos. 682 and 1020. See, also, another early mammoth tooth bottle, complete with a matching stopper, illustrated in R. Kleiner, Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Denis Low, Singapore, 1999, no. 223.