A Carved Smoky Quartz Snuff Bottle 18TH/19TH CENTURY 清中期 茶晶蘭竹圖鼻烟壺 of rounded rectangular form with a narrow sectioned foot, carved on one side through an opaque white skin to show a plumage of leaves issuing from rockery, the reverse incised with a scholar traversing a bridge beneath pines in a landscape scene; coral stopper. Height 3 1/2 in., 8.9 cm. Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois Acquired from Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, September 1990