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A Chalcedony 'Dove and Prunus' Snuff Bottle Official School, Qing Dynasty,18th / 19th Century
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 HKD
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Description
- chalcedony; stopper: coral, pearl
of rectangular form supported on an oval footrim, carved as a cameo design in white with a dove on a luxuriant prunus branch under a half moon, all against a pale beige ground, the reverse intricately carved with a stork
Catalogue Note
可見一相類作例，雕荷塘鴛鴦，錄Hugh Moss、Victor Graham 及曾嘉寶，《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection》，卷2，香港，1998年，編號330。曾售香港蘇富比2013年11月26日，編號125。