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Lot 90

AN AMBER SNUFF BOTTLE
18th/19th century

2 November 2021, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,805 inc. premium

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AN AMBER SNUFF BOTTLE

18th/19th century
Of flattened rounded form rising to a cylindrical neck, the amber of golden honey tone with faint cloudy inclusions, with jadeite mounted stopper. 5.3cm (2 1/8in) high. (3).

Footnotes

十八/十九世紀 琥珀鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Parry Collection, London, and thence by descent

來源:
倫敦Parry家族收藏,並由後人保存迄今

See Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, p.254, no.378, for a similar opaque amber bottle preserved in its original cinnabar lacquer case.

A related amber snuff bottle, 18th/19th century, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27 May 2014, lot 127.

參考台北國立故宮博物院藏一例琥珀鼻煙壺,收納於其原剔紅匣內,見《故宮鼻煙壼》,台北,1991年,頁254,編號378。

香港蘇富比於2014年5月27日售出一例十八/十九世紀琥珀鼻煙壺,拍品編號127,可資比對。

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