清十八世紀 琥珀壽桃形鼻煙壺

the well-hollowed light-bodied bottle of globular form, naturalistically carved in the form of a peach and decorated in varying levels of relief with a ripe peach on luxuriant leafy branches, a bat depicted soaring by, the material of a rich reddish-brown colour

There is a minuscule nibble to the inner mouth, but otherwise good condition.
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自本品之工，即見十八世紀官作之巔峰技藝。見一略小例，巧雕五蝠，錄Hugh Moss、Victor Graham 及曾嘉寶，《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection》，卷7，香港，2009年，編號1590。另可參考一玉鼻煙壺例，雕壽桃蝙蝠，藏台北國立故宮博物院，展《通嚏轻扬:鼻烟壶文化特展》，國立故宮博物院，台北，2012年，頁230，編號IV-007。