Beschreibung:

A LARGE AND UNUSUAL LAC BURGAUTE, ABALONE, AND DARK HARDWOOD BOTTLEThe Yaji Master, Japan, 1854-1920
Of elongated spade shape, the main faces applied with large irregular abalone mother-of-pearl panels with orange-red inclusions, one side carved with two scholars conversing in a pavilion surrounded by trees, the other side with a unicorn sea-beast amidst waves, the narrow sides with a star-pattern cell ground in lac burgaute between a dark hardwood foot and neck.
2 7/8in (7.3cm) high, stopperFootnotes1854-1920 漆木嵌螺鈿人物鼻煙壺一件
雅集大師，日本
Provenance:
Russell Mullin Collection
Sigurd Larsen Collection
Eugene Y.C. Sung Collection, Ohio and New York
Published:
Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York and Tokyo, 1976, p. 207, no. 791
來源：
Russell Mullin 收藏
Sigurd Larsen 收藏
Eugene Y.C. Sung藏，俄亥俄州、紐約州
出版：
Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles （鼻烟壺藏家鋻籍）, 紐約及東京, 1976年, 207頁, 791號
For a similar bottle also on a wood base and inlaid on the narrow sides in lac burgaute, see Lilla S. Perry, Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Adventures & Studies of a Collector, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan, 1972, pp. 119-121, no. 119.
For a discussion of the maker's name Yaji, one that derives from the Japanese term for an elegant gathering, and the designation given by the authors, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 7, Part 2, pp. 604-606, no. 1717, where others of similar form are listed.
A larger example sold at Christie's New York, The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part IV, 15 March 2017, lot 359 and another sold at Sotheby's New York, The Gerry P. Mack Collection of Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, 25 October 1997, lot 247.