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A ROOT-AMBER BOTTLE
1770-1860
Of flattened, rectangular form, the deep honey-brown material with large irregular areas of milky-russet color, the sides carved with masks and fixed-ring handles, stopper
2 5/8in. (6.6cm.) high
Provenance
Hugh M. Moss, Ltd., London.

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.

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