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A WHITE AND RUSSET JADE SNUFF BOTTLE This quietly spectacular bottle has a warm tactile quality and warrants
1750-1830 turning in the hand to feel the extremely smooth surface of the russet
Of flattened rounded- square outline, one side plain but with an skin on one side and the elusive gradations of depth in the carving
attractive russet skin forming a patch which extends to the reverse on the other. Certainly a candidate for a possible attribution to the
side which is delicately carved in low relief with the outlines of a cliff Suzhou school, the subtle carving of the towering cliff above the lively
under which sits a fisherman in his craft with a crescent moon above; working fisherman in his raft below, exude a confident artisan at work
stopper. in the fashioning of the design to fit the shape and colors of the stone.
2 3/4in (6.9cm) high The exclusion of a foot ring, the lack of handles and the large size
also indicates a possible school attribution. For further discussion, in
$3,000 - 5,000 relation to a bottle of near identical profile, see Michael C. Hughes, The
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Baltimore, 2009,
1730-1780 白玉帶皮刻月下獨釣圖鼻煙壺 pp.38-39, no. 23.

Provenance:
Robert C. Eldred, 26 August 2005, lot 198

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 111.

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