AN EMBELLISHED IVORY BOTTLE

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AN EMBELLISHED IVORY BOTTLE
1780-1880, POSSIBLY JAPANESE

Of rounded ovoid shape, inlaid with various hardstones with a scene of boys at play, one riding the back of a goat on the deeply cut cell-patterned ivory ground between the spreading foot and separately joined flaring mouth, the base with a stylised shou character (some restoration)
2 5/8in. (6.7cm.) high, stopper

Provenance

Alex S. Cussons
Hugh Moss, 1976

Literature

Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles, No.2, pp.36-37, fig.5

Lot Essay

For other examples from the same workshop, see Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles From the Collection of the Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter, K.C.M.G., London, 1974, pp. 150-151, pl. M.5; another sold Sotheby's, Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, May 5, 1994, lot 1360

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