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A RARE DATED AND HALL-MARKED 'PRINCE DING' CLEAR The fifth Prince Ding Zaichuan, was a great-great grandson of the
ROCK CRYSTAL BOTTLE Qianlong Emperor and rose to high official rank of his own accord
Inscribed Xianfeng xinhai chun Xingyouheng Tang zhi (Made for the Hall during the Daoguang and Xianfeng reigns. He was a noted poet,
of Constancy, spring of the xinhai year (1851) of the Xianfeng period collector and patron of the arts. For further reading see Hugh Moss,
year Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles:
Of rounded spade shape and extremely well hollowed, with a The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2, Part 2, Hong Kong,
cylindrical neck with a flat rim, all supported on a flat oval foot rim with 1998, pp. 481-482, no. 359.
a minutely convex base.
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high, stopper This bottle, a superb example of a totally flawless rock crystal, is
superbly hollowed and polished, both inside and out, and as a result
$12,000 - 18,000 is almost weightless. Only the slightly convex recessed foot hints at
a nineteenth rather than eighteenth century date, a shift in fashion
咸豐辛亥春（1851） 珍罕刻紀年堂號定親王水晶鼻煙壺一件 from the recessed-flat style of the mid-eighteenth century. The mark
《行有恆堂製》款 appears to be added using a diamond-point to scratch the characters
into the stone. Here the character zhi (made for) is appended to the
Provenance: hall name. This type of calligraphy also occurs on a precisely dated
Zhirou Zhai Collection, Hong Kong plain white nephrite bottle, also from the Xianfeng period and may
Hugh M. Moss Ltd., 1993 represent yet another evolution in style during the mid-Qing period.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Part X,
31 May 2015, lot 190 For another clear rock crystal bottle with a four-character
'Xingyouhengtang' mark, see Robert Kleiner, Treasures from the
Exhibited: Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, Singapore, 1999, p. 204, no. 175.
Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch,
British Museum, London, 1995, no. 245 For an unmarked clear rock crystal bottle of similar form, see Vérène
Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Nicollier, The Baur Collection, Geneva, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Flacons
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1997 À Tabac Chinois, Geneva, 2007, pp. 228-229, no. H90.
Published:
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and
George Bloch, British Museum, London, 1995, pp. 376-377, no. 245
Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese
Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 2, Hong
Kong, 1998, no. 364
來源：
Zhirou Zhai收藏，香港
莫士撝，香港，1993年
蘇富比，香港，瑪麗及莊智博珍藏，第十部分，2015年5月311日，
拍品號190

展覽：
瑪麗及莊智博珍藏中國鼻烟壺珍藏，大英博物館，倫敦，1995年，
編號245
瑪麗及莊智博珍藏中國鼻烟壺珍藏，以色列博物館，耶路撒冷，1997
年

出版：
Robert Kleiner, 《瑪麗及莊智博珍藏中國鼻烟壺珍藏》, 大英博物館，
倫敦，1995年，編號245
莫士撝, Victor Graham 及曾嘉寶，《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff
Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection》，卷二，香港，1998
年，編號364

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