Lot Essay
This particularly striking example from the mid-Qing group of plain amber bottles is decorated only with mask and ring handles.
For a similar root-amber bottle still in the Imperial Collection see Chang Lin-sheng, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, p. 252, no. 374.
For a similar root-amber bottle still in the Imperial Collection see Chang Lin-sheng, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, p. 252, no. 374.