清乾隆 / 嘉慶 大理白石雕雙象首鼻煙壺

克拉德收藏，購於北京，1924年
倫敦佳士得1971年6月14日，編號78
Hugh M. Moss Ltd
Reif 收藏
紐約佳士得1993年10月18日，編號9

《清代鼻煙壺》，香港藝術館，香港，1978年，編號126
《Très précieuses tabatières chinoises: Collection rassemblée par Maître Viviane Jutheau》，L’Arcade Chaumet，巴黎，1982年，編號220

Hugh Moss，〈The Kleiner Family Collection〉，《國際中國鼻煙壺協會學術期刊》，1977年6月，頁7，編號9
Hugh Moss 編，《Chinese Snuff Bottles》，卷1，倫敦，1964年，頁22，圖4
Viviane Jutheau，《Guide du collectionneur de tabatières chinoises》，巴黎，1980年，頁109
Robert Kleiner，《Chinese Snuff Bottles: The White Wings Collection》，香港，1997年，編號139

The bottle has some surface scratches and abrasions from use, practically invisible to the naked eye. Otherwise the overall condition is very good.
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The imperial connection here is provided by the subject matter. Elephants were a common imperial subject and unusual on non-imperial wares of the eighteenth or early-nineteenth century. Works of art with elephants or elephant heads depicted or in the form of elephants, were among the more common objects found in imperial residences.

The formalised chrysanthemum flower was also a standard imperial stopper, suggesting this one may be the original.