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A CARVED TWO-COLOR JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1780-1840
One side of the bottle is of russet color and carved with a fgure holding a scroll, the pale
green reverse is carved with the Hehe Erxian twins holding a circular box, all surrounded by
delicately carved scrolls.
2 in. (5.1 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
$12,000-18,000

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Frank Caro, Successor to C.T. Loo, New York, 1965.
The Neal W. and Frances R. Hunter Collection; Sotheby’s New York, 15 September 1998,
lot 260.
Vanessa F. Holden Collection, New York, 1999.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2769.

EXHIBITED

Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention,
The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
The Hehe Erxian, or the Two Immortals of Harmony and Unity, were believed to preside
over happy marriages, and are adaptations of two famous poet-monks of the Tang
dynasty, Hanshan and Shide. They were one of the more popular subjects for this group
of silhouette agate snuf bottles which appear to have fourished in the mid-Qing period.
The present bottle is also unique for the quality of the stone and the crispness of the
carving of the c-scrolls.
1780-1840年 雙色翠玉雕和合二仙圖鼻煙壺

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