A FOSSILIFEROUS LIMESTONE SNUFF BOTTLE

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A FOSSILIFEROUS LIMESTONE SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1880

The black limestone body with a dense network of fossil inclusions mostly appearing as dots and circles, or at the narrow sides as elongated lines, the flattened bottle with a recessed foot, stopper
2 1/4 in. (5.82 cm.) high

Provenance

Bob C. Stevens
Sotheby's New York, 26 March 1982, lot 132
Hugh M. Moss Ltd.

Literature

Chinese Snuff Bottles No. 4, p. 35, no. 1
Moss et. al., The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J&J Collection, vol. 1, no. 80

Exhibited

Christie's New York, 1993
Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1994
Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, 1996-1997
Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997
Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2002
Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 2002
National Museum of History, Taipei, 2002
International Asian Art Fair, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, 2003
Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2003

Lot Essay

A similar example from the collection of the late Marquess of Exeter, is illustrated in Chinese Snuff Bottles No. 6, S19, while several others with a variety of markings and colors are illustrated by Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, nos. 671-678, 680 and 681.

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