19TH CENTURY

Details

An amethyst snuff bottle
19th Century
Of flattened rounded rectangular shape, the narrow sides carved in low relief with lion-mask fixed-ring handles, the stone of soft tone with attractive 'sea-spray' markings, with stopper
6.4 cm. high

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Sale room notice

Please note that there is a very small crack to the footrim.

Lot Essay

The delicate network of natural flaws in amethyst and rock crystal can be described as 'sea-spray', 'net' or 'cracked-ice'. See Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J&J Collection, Tokyo, 1993, pp. 183-184, no. 102 and 95 for another example and a discussion of this group.

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