PROBABLY GUANGZHOU, 1760-1850

Details

A CARVED MOTHER-OF-PEARL SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY GUANGZHOU, 1760-1850
The bottle is carved from lustrous pearly-white shell on one side with a scene of a figure looking out of an abode towards a sampan which is carved from a raised area of pale russet color, the reverse is carved with two Westerners and a dog beneath a plantain tree.
2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper

Provenance

Wheatley Antiques, London, 2002.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2006.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3815.

Exhibited

Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

A similar bottle from the collection of Lilla Perry was sold in The Ruth and Carl Barron of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part II, Christie's New York, 16 March 2016, lot 574. For another similar bottle, and discussion about mother-of-pearl bottles, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 3, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 192, no. 436.

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