Author: KLEINER, ROBERT
Title: Precious Playthings: Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Mack Collection
Description: Robert Kleiner & Co. Ltd. London. 2000. (ISBN: 9627287415). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 22,6x 29,3 cm; 0,956 Kg; 134 pages with colour illustrations; Used in very good condition overall. Minor signs of wear on the dust jacket.; Includes loose price list.; Dealer catalogue. 86 lots with collour illustrations. Includes loose price list.; "Gerry P Mack was one of the great snuff bottle collectors of the twentieth century. The bottles for which Gerry had a weakness have stood the test of time and more remarkably, of our increased knowledge of the subject. Gerry's achievement was to align on bottles which he liked and which are still highly sought after and in many cases among the finest of their type, such as no. 26 in this catalogue, the stunning Imperial glass snuff bottle inscrebed with one of the Qianlong Emperor's personal reminiscences and no. 11, the nephrite bottle hollowed almost to eternity." excerpt from the foreword by Robert Kleiner, February 2000. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

Keywords: 9627287415 enamels,glass,nephrite,jadeite,porcelain,hardstones


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