Two carved and inscribed coconut shell snuff bottles, Qing dynasty | 清 椰殼刻字鼻煙壺兩件

A Congregation of Snuff Bottle Connoisseurs: An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1996, cat. no. 331.

展覽：

《壺趣集慶：中國鼻煙壺展》，徐氏藝術館，香港，1996年，編號331 

Humphrey Hui, An Addicted Dedication: Chinese Snuff bottles Christopher Sin's Collection, vol. I, Hong Kong, 2013, pls 331 and 332.

出版：

許建勳，《An Addicted Dedication: Chinese Snuff bottles Christopher Sin's Collection》，卷一，香港，2013年，圖版331及332

The first bottle, signed by Ju Min in 1820, is carved with an eight-character inscription in archaic script. The second bottle features lily flowers meticulously incised on its face and an inscription etched onto its reverse. See a similar snuff bottle sold in these rooms from the Joe Grimberg Collection, 14th September 2010, lot 2.