Lot 1354
  • 1354

AN AMBER 'SQUIRREL AND GRAPES' SNUFF BOTTLE QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY |

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Height 2 1/3  in., 6 cm
of compressed rectangular form with relief carving of a squirrel and a leafy bunch of grapes, the amber a rich golden hue, stopper (2)

Provenance

Collection of Michael Stern.
The Kurt Graf Blucher von Wahlstatt (Count Blucher) Collection.
Sotheby's New York, 1st-2nd December 1992, lot 512.

Exhibited

An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Sydney L. Moss Ltd, London, 1965, cat. no. 126.

Literature

Snuff Bottles of China, Hugh Moss, London, 1971, cat. no. 157.

Condition

The amber bottle has a flake chip and nicks to the mouth rim. The body has a bruise to the tail of the relief-carved squirrel and a flake chip to the end of a leaf. The foot rim with further bruises and small nicks.
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