A HAIR CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

of rounded rectangular outline, the shoulders carved with mock lion-mask handles, the smoky-colored quartz suffused with hair-like tourmaline inclusions, stopper (2)

Collection of Bob C. Stevens.
Sotheby's Parke Bernet, 7th November 1981, lot 80.
Eugene Sung, New York, 1981.

Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York and Tokyo, 1976, fig. 472. 

There is a 0.5 cm chip to the top of the mouth, as well as a 0.1 cm shallow flake to the inner rim. Otherwise in overall good condition with expected minute nicks to the extremities and some natural inclusions to the stone.
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