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From the Collection of Elsa Glickman, New York
A delicately carved pod-shaped coconut-shell and bone snuff bottle
1760-1840The triangular pod-shaped bottle beautifully carved with flowers rising from rockwork below ribboned objects, the mouth mounted with a bone collar and stopper. 3in (7.6cm) high, stopper
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1760-1840年 椰殼刻花草紋鼻煙壺For another coconut bottle of similar elongated pod form but carved with a bird and trees, see Moss, Graham, and Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, p. 465, no. 278. The authors mention the unusual shape of this type of bottle, which appears to have been made from the entire shell of a dwarf coconut, a known variety which tends towards a slightly triangular cross-section. They suggest a southern production, possibly the Jiangnan region.