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A PALE GREY-BLUE FACETED JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, POSSIBLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING,
1770-1840
The icy, translucent stone is carved on each side with radiating
facets resembling a stylized chrysanthemum blossom, and with
rectangular facets on the narrow sides.

2Ω in. (6.3 cm.) high, tourmaline stopper

$14,000-18,000

PROVENANCE

Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2006.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 3984.

EXHIBITED

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

A crystal bottle of similar form formerly in the collection of Marian
Mayer and subsequently Mary and George Bloch is published in
Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuf Bottles, The
Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 2, Part 2, Hong Kong,
1998, pp. 426-429, no. 337. Moss points out that this form of
bottle was made in a range of diferent materials, including jadeite
that is often of a pale grey-blue color as seen in the current lot.

This bottle was likely produced at the palace workshops or
another imperial facility.
1770-1840年 御製翠玉磨花鼻煙壺

(another view)

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