Quartz, hair crystal snuff bottle, with tourmaline needles of varying densities and a mottled opaque creamy white inclusion carved to depict a squirrel below a grape-laden vine.

Reverse: Quartz, hair crystal snuff bottle, with tourmaline needles of varying densities and a mottled opaque creamy white inclusion carved to depict a squirrel below a grape-laden vine.

THE CHINESE COLLECTION

 

Squirrel & Grapes Snuff Bottle

 

A hair crystal well hollowed cameo carved picture snuff bottle with an agate and metal stopper.

B57

Quartz, hair crystal, with tourmaline needles of varying densities with a mottled opaque creamy white inclusion carved to depict a squirrel below a grape-laden vine; the well hollowed bottle of rectangular form.

Chinese, 1750-1860
Stopper: hollowed agate painted inside to imitate jadeite
Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 1973
Height: 7.5

The combination of dense hair crystal and white skin has obviously pleased the artist who has managed to provide an unusually interesting rendition of this well-known subject.

 

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