Description
Description: Chinese wood double snuff bottle shaped as double gourd covered by a polished “shagreen” skin. A cord with a nice knot is wrapping the gourds.
Foot/base: Small flat base on each gourd
Mark:
Dating: 19th Century
Material: Wood covered by Shagreen polished skin
Size: 65 mm high
Stopper: Two Malachite stoppers with ivory spoons
Provenance: Collection Carlo Venegoni.
References:
Notes: About Carlo Venegoni Collection, see Provenance of the glass snuff bottle G25.
The nice knotted wrapped cord has a Japanese feeling, but the bottle is most probably Chinese.
About shagreen, read Notes of the organic snuff bottle O1.
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