A CARVED AMBER BOTTLE

PROBABLY IMPERIAL, 1760-1850

Details

A CARVED AMBER BOTTLE
Probably Imperial, 1760-1850
Of flattened, rounded form, the reddish material finely carved with an overall pattern of basketweave below a plain cylindrical neck, stopper
1 7/8in. (4.6cm.) high

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Janos Szekeres, 5 June 1987, lot 110.

Lot Essay

Finely carved basket-weave designs on snuff bottles were popular during the latter part of the Qianlong reign into the early nineteenth century. See a discussion in H. Moss, V. Graham, K.B. Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, vol. 2, Quartz, no. 347. This is a rare example in amber.

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