At the Christie's arrangement beforehand this year, an administrative carved ivory snuff canteen from the Palace Workshops in Beijing was awash for $240,000, able-bodied aloft its appraisal of $90,000 to $130,000. The canteen was from the J&J Collection, one of the top clandestine collections in the world.
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Audrey Wang, a specialist at Christie's Hong Kong, says the amount reflected the aberration of the bottle, which bears a Quianlong administration mark hardly begin on ivory bottles.
"The capital acumen why snuff bottles are so collectible is that they appear in such a advanced ambit of media that there is something for everyone's aftertaste and a adventitious for humans to abstraction altered media," Wang said. "You accept porcelain, enamel, jade, and bamboo, aggregate you can anticipate of."
Experts say administrative snuff bottles which would accept been fabricated for the emperor's claimed use are apartof the alotof admired pieces. While ivory snuff bottles are not the rarest - enameled bottle snuff bottles are harder to acquisition - their aerial carvings are exquisite.
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The Qianlong emperor was decidedly addicted of intricate ivory carvings, and snuff bottles from the aeon body the best 18th aeon ivory carvings, experts say.
