拍品 108
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AN UNUSUAL RETICULATED WHITE COPPER BOTTLE
AN UNUSUAL RETICULATED WHITE COPPER BOTTLE

1780-1880

細節
AN UNUSUAL RETICULATED WHITE COPPER BOTTLE
1780-1880
Of high-shouldered tapering form, the body decorated with a continuous reticulated design of nine romping Buddhist lions playing with brocade balls, original stopper
2 7/8in. (7.3cm.) high
來源
Edward Choate O'Dell Collection, Baltimore.
展覽
Chinese Snuff Bottles, Taipei Gallery, New York, October 1993.

拍品專文

White copper (baitong) was widely used as a substitute for silver in China. A small series of white copper bottles which emulate molded porcelain bottles of the mid-Qing period date mostly from the nineteenth century.