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AN INSCRIBED CHALCEDONY SNUFF BOTTLE 清乾隆 瑪瑙鼻煙壺
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG 《乾隆年製》款
7 cm, 2¾ in.
來源：
PROVENANCE
Y.F. Yang, Hong Kong, 28th April, 1972 (HK$7,500). 同豐行，香港，1972年4月28日（HK$7,500）
This is one of a group of inscribed chalcedony snuff bottles
made for the Imperial court in the late Qianlong period.
Several are recorded, including one in the Crane collection,
acquired in these rooms, 28th October 1992, lot 407. It is
inscribed as having been made for the personal use of the
Qianlong Emperor in 1783. There is another formerly in the
Mary and George Bloch collection, illustrated by Hugh Moss,
Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese
Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 2, Mark
Hong Kong, 1998, no. 355, and sold in these rooms, 26th
November 2013, lot 80. See also a third example illustrated
in Bob C. Stevens, The Collector’s Book of Snuff Bottles, New
York, 1976, no. 530, later sold at Sotheby’s Honolulu, 7th
November 1981, lot 97.
HK$ 20,000-30,000
US$ 2,550-3,850
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