Bottle ID: 234

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CARVED, TAOTIE MASKS

Date: 1736-1799

Height: 44 mm

Carnelian, very well hollowed, of small flattened ovoid form, carved continuously in low relief with a central wide band of full-face taotie masks surrounded by bosses above bands of petal leaf lappets and with a neck band of raised bosses, on the lower section surrounding musical chimes and a base band of double lappets, the sides carved with mask and ring handles.

Possibly Imperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing.

Similar Examples:

Sotheby's, New York, October 25, 1997, lot 203, The Gerry P. Mack Collection
Sotheby's, New York, September 14, 2010, lot 82, The Joe Grimberg Collection.

Provenance:

Hugh Moss [HK] Ltd.

The attribution to the Palace workshops here is based upon the design which exactly echoes a group of highly imperial opaque yellow glass bottles from the Qianlong period, some of which have Palace reign marks, and most of which have either mask handles dividing the formalized design into two main sides, or occasionally deer, or other, animal handles.

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