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A SEMI-TRANSLUCENT RUSSET-STAINED AND PALE For a similarly shaped nephrite bottle also carved with chilong, see
CELADON-WHITE JADE BOTTLE Chang Lin-sheng (Ed.), Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National
1770-1850 Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, p. 168, no. 168.
Of attractive spade shape with high, gently rounded shoulders carved
at their apex with high-relief lion-mask fixed-ring handles below a
waisted everted neck with slightly convex rim and regular mouth
opening, the main sides carved in low relief with coiling archaistic
chilong with hooked-scroll bodies, all supported on a short spreading
oval foot ring with slightly convex base.
2 1/16in (5.2cm) high, stopper

$2,500 - 4,000
1770-1850 青棕玉帶舖首啣環鼻煙壺一件
Provenance:
A Private Connecticut Collection
Doyle New York
來源：
康涅狄格州私人收藏
Doyle拍賣行，紐約，拍品號173

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