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AN INSCRIBED AND GILT CELADON JADE ‘FLOWERING The inscription title reads “imperially inscribed : flowering crabapple”
CRABAPPLE’ SNUFF BOTTLE followed by the poem 幾朶猩紅軟玉蕤，秋風初試怯猶遲，依稀七夕
1760-1840, possibly Imperial 長生殿，可憶無人私語時. Likely a poem originally composed by the
Of compressed spade shape, incised and gilt to one side with Qianlong emperor.
flowering plants, probably begonia, and to the other with a thirty-two-
character poetic inscription on flowering crabapple; stopper. For two similarly-shaped floral and gilt-decorated nephrite bottles, see
1 7/8in (4.3cm) high Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei,
1992, p. 169, no’s. 171 and 173.
$4,000 - 6,000
For other bottles with Imperially designated poems on one side and
1760-1840 或為御製 青玉刻海棠花填金附詩文鼻煙壺 depictions of flowers on the other see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham
and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and
Provenance: George Bloch Collection, Vol. I, Jade, pp.260-265, no’s. 107 and 108,
Christie’s, New York, Oriental Furniture and Works of Art, 21 March where the authors discuss the large group of bottles that fall into this
1989, lot 163 category, some dating to the Qianlong period and others that might fall
into the nineteenth century. See also, Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and
Exhibited: Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection,
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Vol. I, pp. 94-95, no. 38.
New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 40

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