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A pair of large 'root' amber snuff bottles
1850-1900Of slightly tapering flattened baluster shape, each carved with a continuous rocky landscape, one bottle with a scholar and attendant under pine to one side and a qilin beneath a peach and flying bat, the other bottle with a scholar and attendant under prunus to one side and two qilin beneath pine on the other, both bottles with lion-mask fixed-ring handles on the narrow sides, slightly concave oval bases. 3 1/2in (8.8cm) high, each (2).
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1850-1900年 琥珀雕山水人物鼻煙壺一對Amber is a fossilized tree resin. It occurs in a wide range of colors, far more than just the orange-brown or yellow colors described as 'amber'. In Asia it is found primarily in Burma and would have been available in large quantities after the normalization of relations between Burma and China in 1784, but almost certainly in smaller quantities before then. It is interesting to note that the subjects depicted are often very similar, or at least have a similar Daoist or scholarly theme. it is possible given the wide-ranging daoist subject matter depicted on many amber bottles that a particular workshop, perhaps part of a Daoist communitty, was the leading producer and that they found the mystical qualities of the 'fossilized' resin material somehow in balance or accordance with their own alchemical leanings.For a single example of a carved 'root' amber bottle, see Christie's, New York, The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part II, 16 March 2016, lot 443