AN UNUSUAL SEMI-TRANSPARENT SEA-GREEN TOURMALINE 'BATS AND CLOUDS' BOTTLE1820-1900
Of slightly bulbous rounded spade-shaped, carved in relief around the entire body with bats amidst cloud scrolls, below a slightly waisted plain cylindrical neck, the attractive stone with horizontal crystalline markings to the matrix, and one side with a triangular inclusion of paler green with a black outline, the foot formed by a shallowly cut concave oval.
2 3/16in (5.8cm) high, stopperFootnotes1820-1900 碧璽刻蝙蝠雲紋鼻煙壺一件
Provenance:
Eugene Y.C. Sung Collection, Ohio and New York
來源：
Eugene Y.C. Sung藏，俄亥俄州、紐約州
For an agate bottle carved with two bats amidst a ground of stylized clouds on one side and attributed to the Imperial palace workshops, see Christie's New York, The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part II, 16 March 2016, lot 488. See also, Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Vol. 1, New York, 1993, p. 142, no. 77, for a rare black serpentine bottle similarly carved with bats and dense clouds.
AN UNUSUAL SEMI-TRANSPARENT SEA-GREEN TOURMALINE 'BATS AND CLOUDS' BOTTLE1820-1900
Of slightly bulbous rounded spade-shaped, carved in relief around the entire body with bats amidst cloud scrolls, below a slightly waisted plain cylindrical neck, the attractive stone with horizontal crystalline markings to the matrix, and one side with a triangular inclusion of paler green with a black outline, the foot formed by a shallowly cut concave oval.
2 3/16in (5.8cm) high, stopperFootnotes1820-1900 碧璽刻蝙蝠雲紋鼻煙壺一件
Provenance:
Eugene Y.C. Sung Collection, Ohio and New York
來源：
Eugene Y.C. Sung藏，俄亥俄州、紐約州
For an agate bottle carved with two bats amidst a ground of stylized clouds on one side and attributed to the Imperial palace workshops, see Christie's New York, The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part II, 16 March 2016, lot 488. See also, Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Vol. 1, New York, 1993, p. 142, no. 77, for a rare black serpentine bottle similarly carved with bats and dense clouds.
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