Bottle ID: 140

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BLACK WITH VERTICAL GRAY STRIPE

Date: 1750-1860

Height: 57 mm

Limestone, of flattened rectangular shape, with rounded shoulders and a deeply cut ovoid foot, the stone of a black tone with two vertical gray bands running in central parallel lines from the neck around the base of the bottle.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no. 508
Crane Collection no. 911
Stevens, Bob C. The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, 1976, pp. 172-173, no. 661.
Chinese Snuff Bottles and Dishes. Catalogue of an exhibition from the Collection of Bob C. Stevens, Mikimoto Hall, Tokyo, 1978, p. 90, no. 253.
Hughes, Michael C. The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. Chinese Snuff Bottles, 2009, pp. 178-179, no. 140.

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd. 
Sotheby's New York, June 25th, 1982, lot 145
Bob C. Stevens

Published:

Stevens, Bob C. The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, 1976, p. 173, no. 662

This is one of the most dramatic of fossiliferous limestone bottles. The carver has transformed a simple stone into an abstract work of art, both elegant and dramatic in its simplicity. The vision of the carver to use the stone in such a magical way is only matched by his technical ability to have cut and polished the stone, so that the two vertical stripes are ideally positioned on and around the bottle.

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