清十八 / 十九世紀 琥珀駝鷹鼻煙壺

倫敦蘇富比1987年4月28日，編號815

Robert Kleiner、楊伯達及 Clarence F. Shangraw，《盈寸纖研 ─ 瑪麗及佐治伯樂鼻煙壺珍藏》，香港藝術館，香港，1994年，編號275
新加坡國家博物館，新加坡，1994-1995年

Hugh Moss、Victor Graham 及曾嘉寶，《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection》，卷7，香港，2009年，編號1597

Natural crack down the haunches from where the eagle is perched. Good condition.
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The roughened interior may be an indication that the entire group of animal-form amber snuff bottles may have been made a little earlier than it was previously suggested, and probably during the second half of the eighteenth century.

This is the only known Bactrian camel from the broad group of stylistically related animal-form bottles in either jade or amber. Although the style, material, size, and distinctive rough hollowing of the interior all confirm it as part of the amber series from the group, the addition of the extra creature, the hawk improbably perched on its hind flank, is another unique feature.