A RED-BROWN JASPER SPADE-SHAPED SNUFF BOTTLE1830-1910 With short spreading neck, two conforming panels on each main face, one carved with a Manchu bannerman on horseback in a rocky landscape, the other with Liuhai and assistant teasing the magical three-legged toad amidst lotus and rockwork, all set against a diaper-cell ground; stopper. 2 1/8in (5.4cm) high 1830-1910 仿剔紅紅碧石刻人物鼻烟壺 Provenance: Ko Family Collection, Torino Christie's, London, The Ko Family Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 14 June 1971, lot 135 Bob C. Stevens Sotheby's Park Bernet, New York, Fine and Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Bob C. Stevens, Part III, 25 June 1982, lot 125 Elsa Glickman, New York , New York, Chinese Snuff Bottles From American Collections (including property from the Elsa Glickman Collection), 12 September 2016, lot 9008 Literature: Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Bob C. Stevens Collection , Catalogue, 1978, Mikimoto Hall, Tokyo, no. 158 Exhibition: Mikimoto Hall, Tokyo, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Bob C. Stevens Collection, October, 1978. This bottle was clearly made in imitation of cinnabar lacquer as evidenced by the choice of colored stone, the spade shape and the delicately carved diaper cell ground to indicate air and water. For an example in lacquer see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Vol. II , pp. 529-530, no. 311.