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AN INSCRIBED WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1770-1799
The bottle is delicately incised and gilded with a ffty-six-character poem on wine and
poetry, followed by the inscription, Yu ti (‘imperially inscribed’). The stone is of even, white
tone.

2¡ in. (6 cm) high, quartz stopper
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

John Ault Collection, Bangkok, Thailand.
Robert Kleiner, London, 2005.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4256.

EXHIBITED

Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26
September 2008.

For an example of a yellow jade bottle incised with a Qianlong Imperial poem on either
side, and a further discussion of imperially inscribed jade bottles, see Moss, Graham,
Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuf Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. I,
Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 266-69, no. 109.
1770-1799年 御製白玉刻描金詩文鼻煙壺

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