Lot 40
  • 40

A FOSSILIFEROUS LIMESTONE SNUFF BOTTLE QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 HKD
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Description

  • Limestone

Provenance

Sotheby’s London, 23rd March 1988, lot 125 .
Robert Kleiner, London, 1992.

Exhibited

Robert Kleiner, Boda Yang, and Clarence F. Shangraw, Chinese Snuff Bottles: A Miniature Art from the Collection of George and Mary Bloch, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat. no. 247.
National Museum of Singapore, Singapore, 1994-1995.

Literature

Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 3, Hong Kong, 1998, no. 402.

Condition

Miniscule chip to outer lip and small nibbles to the inner footrim, some possibly smoothed. Otherwise, good condition.
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