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七 70. Basket-weave snuff bottle of flattened rounded rectangular form, a double rib at the base of the cylindrical neck and a single rib above

十 the plain oval foot, the interior well hollowed, the stone pure white.

2 ½ inches, 6.3 cm high without stopper.
柳 Qianlong/Jiaqing, 1760-1820.
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紋 • From an important Middle Eastern collection.
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煙 • Purchased in Hong Kong from Mr Liang in the 1950s.
壺 • A similar snuff bottle is illustrated by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang in The Art of The Chinese Snuff bottle, The

J & J Collection, no. 50, p. 109, where the authors note, ‘The perfectly finished, slightly formalised nature of the basket weave

白 here lends a delightful and understated textural dimension to the simple form’; another is illustrated by Michael C. Hughes in
玉 The Blair Bequest, Chinese Snuff bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum, no. 6, p. 41; a further example, formerly in the

collection of H. J. Heinz and Edward O’Dell, is illustrated in Chinese Snuff bottles from the Collection of Joseph Baruch Silver, in

乾 conjunction with the exhibition at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1987, no. 44, p. 27.
隆 • A rounded basket-weave snuff bottle, bearing an incised four-character mark Yangzheng shuwu, ‘Studio for the cultivation of a
/ righteous mind’, attributed to the Palace workshops, Beijing, 1775-1820, formerly in the Trojan collection and sold by Robert
嘉 Hall in 1993, is illustrated by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang in A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and

慶 George Bloch Collection, Volume 1, Jade, no. 149, pp. 386-9.

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