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A white nephrite snuff bottle A lavender and green jadeite snuff bottle with monkeys
1750-1800 19th century
In the form of an eggplant, with the calyx carved of a separate piece of Of flattened baluster form, with a flat, everted lip and a concave foot,
dark green jade, the pear shaped-fruit culminating in a neat point, the with three monkeys carved in relief, the largest in the foreground
stone an even white with icy inclusions. crouching and holding a peach, the carving highlighted with the natural
2 1/4in (5.8cm) high celadon, lavender and russet coloration of the stone.
$2,000 - 3,000 2in (5.1cm) high
$3,000 - 5,000
It is likely that the present bottle is from a group that was made in sets
for the 18th century Imperial Court. Two sets of ten bottles are illustrated Illustrated:
in Chang Lin-sheng, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Bob C. Stevens, The Collector’s Book of Snuff Bottles Tokyo, 1976,
Museum, Taipei, 1991, pp. 142 and 145, pls. 112 and 115. number 389;
“Monkey Business in a Chinese Snuff Bottle,” Journal International
8063 Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Spring, 1992, p. 19
A white jade pebble form snuff bottle carved with deer and egret
1750-1850
Of natural pebble form, with a flat oval foot that allows the bottle
to stand freely, one side of the exterior carved in low relief with an
auspicious landscape featuring a spotted deer glancing up at a bat and
a standing crane bending down to a lingzhi, framed with an arcing
pine to one side and a rocky outcropping to the other, the stone an
even white color.
2 1/2in (6.3cm) high
$5,000 - 7,000

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