A BURLWOOD SNUFF BOTTLE

QING DYNASTY, LATE 18TH CENTURY

HEIGHT (INCLUDING COVER): 7CM

The snuff bottle is hollowed from a naturally formed pear-shaped section of burl, with steeply sloping shoulders and standing on a shallow ring foot. The gnarled surface is covered with small knots with a stopper fashioned out of similar material. The bottle is well patinated to a dark russet tone.

PROVENANCE
Mary & George Bloch Collection
Spink & Son Ltd, 1979, Catalogue No. 225
Christie’s London, 9th October 1974, Lot 166
Ko Collection, Acquired in Ji’nan, Shangdong, 1928

PUBLISHED IN
Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang’s A Treasury of Chinese Snuff
Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 7, Hong Kong, 2009, Catalogue No. 1475
Bamboo & Wood Carvings of China and the East, Spink & Son, 1979, p. 59, Catalogue No. 225

清十八世紀末　癭木隨形鼻咽壼