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A MINIATURE WHITE NEPHRITE SNUFF BOTTLE The inscription describes the qualities of a refined person, one
1770-1880 exhorting one to be as genial as a fine jade (wenqi ruyu), the other to
The pebble material with traces of a russet skin, of irregular flattened cultivate the mind of a gentleman (yannian junzi).
ovoid shape with a tapering cylindrical neck, flat lip and recessed, flat
oval foot; incised on the edges of one main face with two formalized For a larger and earlier bottle with dragons in much higher relief and
chilong, and on the edges of the other side with two inscriptions in seal with inscriptions delighting in their freedom, see Bonhams, Hong
script, wenqi ruyu and yannian junzi; stopper. Kong, Snuff Bottles from the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Part
1 1/2in (3.9cm) high V, 27 May 2012, lot 121.
$3,000 - 4,000
1770-1880 白玉卵石刻螭龍附銘文微型鼻煙壺
Provenance:
Universal, Taipei, April 1999
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., 11 October 1999
Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 83
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