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9027                                                                  9028
AN EMBELLISHED JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE                                   A WHITE GLASS ‘BASKET-WEAVE’ SNUFF BOTTLE
The bottle: 1850-1920, embellishment: Tsuda family, Kyoto, Japan,     1750-1850
20th century                                                          The flattened rounded bottle finished with a flat lip and finely rounded
Well-hollowed, of compressed spherical form, with a short waisted     oval foot ring, carved with an overall basket-weave pattern below the
neck, wide recessed lip, flat oval foot, painted and adorned with     waisted neck; the translucent white glass resembling fine nephrite.
colored stones on one side depicting a man fishing in a shanban,      2 5/8in (6.7cm) high
near a rocky band with a gazebo under a pine, the verso displaying a
contemplative woman in fancy robes under pine trees, attended by her  US$4,000 - 6,000
servant holding a big fan.
2in (5.1cm) high                                                      Provenance
                                                                      Michael C. Hughes LLC, 1 March 2004
US$6,000 - 9,000
                                                                      1750-1850 仿玉白料刻竹簍紋鼻煙壺
壺:1850-1920 嵌飾:二十世紀日本津田家族
翡翠嵌雜寶人物鼻煙壺

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