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A LARGE MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INSET WOOD SNUFF BOTTLE
THE YAJI MASTER, JAPAN, 1854-1920
The wood bottle is inset on either side with a mother-of-pearl panel fnely carved with
fgures in pavilions in a mountainous retreat, one panel is of cream color, the other of darker
amber-brown color, the two fanked on the narrow sides by carved feline mask handles.

3 in. (7.6 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE

Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2007.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4547.

EXHIBITED

Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection,
23-26 September 2008.

A bottle, also by the Yaji Master, with inset shell panels carved with similar landscapes
and buildings, but of only white color, is illustrated in Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury
of Chinese Snuf Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 7, Part 2, Hong Kong,
2009, pp. 604-606.
日本 1854-1920年 雅集大師作木嵌珍珠母貝雕亭臺人物圖鼻煙壺

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