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A CARVED JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE
1800-1900
The mottled greenish-white bottle is carved in high relief through
an apple-green area on one side with two egrets amidst lotus
leaves, while the reverse and narrow sides are carved with plain
raised rectangular panels with indented corners.

2¿ in. (5.3 cm.) high, glass stopper

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE

Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1993.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 5005.
1800-1900年 翠玉雕一路連科圖鼻煙壺

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•394 LITERATURE
A PINK-OVERLAY MILK-WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1770-1860 R. Hall, Irish Mist, Chinese Snuf Bottles XIV, London, 2009, p. 6,
The bottle is carved through the transparent pink overlay to the no. 3.
opaque white ground with a continuous scene of monkeys, on one
side hunting after wasps in the spreading branches of a pine tree The popular subject of a monkey (hou) with a bee or wasp
growing on one narrow side opposite a peach tree on the other, and on (feng) provides the rebus, fenghou (‘To be bestowed the rank of
the other main side with a monkey riding a deer being led by another marquis’ ), although here this second highest of fve ranks is used
monkey, with a bat above and lingzhi sprouting from the ground. as a generic term for high ofice in general. This version is unusual
in the numerous wasps included in the scene, as one would be
2¡ in. (6 cm.) high, jadeite stopper suficient to form the rebus.
1770-1860年 涅白地套紅玻璃封侯圖鼻煙壺
$2,400-3,400

PROVENANCE

Robert Hall, London, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4985.

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