A rare and unusual carved buffalo horn snuff mullEarly 19th century
The circular domed cover deeply carved to the central roundel with a scholar and attendant beneath a tree within a foliate border, and hinged on a white-metal mount, the mull with single scene of figures busy in a terraced landscape above a European neo-classical style acanthus-carved scroll terminal.
10.5cm high.注脚Provenance: a private Scottish collection, and by descent to the current owner.

Probably originally a commission for a Scottish patron as it is steamed into the form of a Scottish ram's horn snuff mull, before carving in typical Canton export style.