拍品 147
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A Carved Amber Bottle
A Carved Amber Bottle

1780-1880

细节
A Carved Amber Bottle
1780-1880
Of flattened pebble shape, carved in relief with a leaping tiger amidst pine, bamboo and clouds to one side and a scaly dragon rising from waves to the other admist cloud vapours, stopper
2.7/8in. (7.3cm.) high

拍品专文

For a large amber bottle of similar shape, formerly in the Bob C. Stevens Collection, carved with magpies amidst prunus, see Rachelle R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far from the World, New York, 1994, pp. 92-93, no. 33. For a more truncated example with a rider and assistant amidst prunus, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, New York and Tokyo, 1993, pp. 502-503, no. 297