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8001
An inscribed nephrite snuff bottle
Likely Imperial Workshops, 1760-1800
Of flattened spade shape, with a flat everted
lip and flat foot, one side with a intaglio
carved depiction of a lotus, reversed by a
poem finely incised in regular script titled
Yu Ti He Hua Shi (Imperially Inscribed Lotus
Poem), followed by a twenty-character poetic
inscription, the interior well-hollowed, the
stone with black and grey inclusions.
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high
$8,000 - 10,000
The poem is recorded in Qianlong Yuzhi
Jianshang Minghua Ti Shi Lu, 2 Ji, Juan 87. (乾隆
御制鉴赏名画题诗录 二集, 卷八十七)
8002
A white and russet nephrite snuff bottle
1776 or 1836
Of natural pebble form, the interior well-
hollowed, with one side carved in low relief with
a wild orchid growing from a vertical cliff face,
with a six character inscription in relief reading
Bingshen Juyue Xing zuo (1776/1836, the
chrysanthemum month, Xing created), the stone
an even white tone with russet streaks.
2 1/2in (6.5cm) high
$6,000 - 8,000
8001 (two views)
8002
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