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A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE BASKETWEAVE BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL, 1760-1840
The bottle is carved overall with an intricate basketweave pattern utilizing the stone of even
white color.

2¡ in. (6 cm.) high, quartz stopper
$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE

The Gerry Mack Collection, New York.
The Hilda Somers Collection, 1949.
The Blanche Exstein Collection; Christie’s New York, 21 March 2001, lot 226.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2003.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3656.

This is one of a series of basketweave bottles which also relate to a group of plain,
rounded-rectangular bottles made for the Court, many in pure white jade, during the mid-
Qing period. For a similar example, see H. Moss, V. Graham, K.B. Tsang, The Art of the
Chinese Snuf Bottle: The J & J Collection, New York, 1993, p. no. 50.

For a white jade basketweave bottle in the Imperial Collection, see Masterpieces of Snuf
Bottles in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1995, p. 133, no. 123. See, also, the very similar
bottle, bearing the hallmark of the ffth Prince Ding, Zaiqian, illustrated by R. Kleiner,
Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect: Chinese Snuf Bottles from the
collection of Denis Low, Singapore, 1995, no. 37.
1760-1840年 白玉籮筐紋鼻煙壺

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