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213 Y The ‘jujube and peanuts’ subject was a popular fig.1 An agate ‘jujube and peanuts’
An agate ‘jujube and peanuts’ snuff bottle and typical design for snuff bottles during the snuff bottle, Qing Dynasty; image
18th/19th century mid-Qing Dynasty. The motif is replete with courtesy of the Palace Museum,
The honey-coloured stone of flattened ovoid the auspicious wishes to have an eminent son. Beijing.
form with a small recessed circular base, the Jujubes and peanuts are the puns for ‘early son
exterior incised to depict the shape of a jujube, (早子)’ and ‘giving birth (花生)’ respectively,
with three small peanuts carved in relief on the the two together meaning may you soon
shoulder, the side and the bottom making use give birth to an outstanding son. Compare a
of the lighter russet area of the stone, tiger’s similar example in the Mary and George Bloch
eye stopper. Collection, illustrated by H.Moss, V.Graham,
4.9cm (2in) high (2). K.B.Tsang, in A Treasury of Chinese Snuff
£1,500 - 2,000 Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection,
HK$18,000 - 24,000 CNY14,000 - 19,000 Vol.2, Quartz, Hong Kong, 1998, p.402,
no.330.
十八/十九世紀 瑪瑙巧雕棗果形鼻煙壺
See another related example in the Palace
Provenance: A European private collection and Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete
thence by descent Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum:
Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 2003, p.165, pl.255
來源：歐洲私人收藏，並由家族繼承下去 (see fig.1 right).

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