Bottle ID: 809

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CORAL, PAIR OF MANDARIN DUCKS ON WATER

Date: 1750-1800

Height: 63 mm

A coral snuff bottle, of elongated, ovoid form with rounded shoulders and a cylindrical neck and with a neatly carved inset oval foot, well-hollowed, the vivid pink and white stone continuously carved with a pair of mandarin ducks floating on crested waves beneath curling lotus leaves, pods and flowers.
 

Provenance:

Bonhams New York, September 19, 2022, lot 33
Joan and Ted Dorf Collection, no. 42
C. G. Sloan & Co., November 1989

Exhibited:

The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD., September 30 – December 9, 2018
 

 

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