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A carved amber bottle from Joey's collection?

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Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
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« on: August 07, 2015, 08:54:00 pm »

Dear YT,

    I've never heard of a Asian Paradise Flycatcher before, but it does have a 'crown' on its head, so I will add that to the description. And the 'flowering Prunus.
Thank you.
Shabbat Shalom,
Joey



    After I bought the Lacquer flask, I saw this carved Baltic Amber flask, also ca.1750-1830, extremely well-carved with two deer under a tree on one face, a bird on a flowering branch on the other face, and ornate Taotie with elongated rings on the sides. Above the raised, indented footrim is carved a continuous Greek Key design surmounted by a border of upward pointing stylized  ruyi heads. The matching stylized ruyi head border, pointing downward, is carved surrounding the base of the neck, while a ring of pendant leaves is carved around the top of the neck. Jadeite stopper with black vinyl collar. It does have a pinhead sized chip to the footrim, on the side with the longtailed bird (a pheasant?).  I paid her asking price of US$2,350.

Dear Joey,

It does look like an Asian Paradise Flycatcher(longtailed bird with a crown on it's head) on a prunus tree. On the reverse side is a pair of Doe and Deer.

Cheers,
YT
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Joey Silver (Si Zhouyi 義周司), collecting snuff bottles since Feb.1970

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