A YELLOW-GLAZED PORCELAIN ‘WOVEN BASKET’ SNUFF BOTTLE QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

with a wide mouth, flat lip, and no foot, moulded in the form of a basket with a bamboo frame supporting the woven areas and a rope-like band dividing the woven section from the plain neck, covered over all with an amber-yellow glaze; with a glass stopper

Collection of John Ault.
Robert Kleiner, London, June 2005.

Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 6, Hong Kong, 2007, no. 1343.

There are some minor surface abrasions, otherwise the snuff bottle is in quite good condition.
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The form of the present basket appears to be unique, and it is possible that it is intended to simulate a basket, rather than a container wrapped in a protective covering, more typically found in snuff bottle forms of the mid-Qing period.