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A YELLOW JADE SNUFF BOTTLE An example of a brown and green jade snuff bottle with a Xingyouheng
Xingyouheng Tang mark, 1800-1854 Tang mark in clerical script was sold in our San Francisco sale rooms,
Well-hollowed, of rounded square shape with a short cylindrical neck, 20 Dec 2011, lot 8001; and another example of white jade with the
each side carved with a bat, its outstretched wings extending up the mark in seal script was sold in these rooms, 15 Sep 2014, lot 8050.
sides, enclosing the character fu on one side, and the character shou Extant snuff bottles bearing this mark, were executed in a wide variety
on the other, the recessed base inscribed Xingyouheng Tang, the of styles.
stone a yellow-green color with some cloudy white inclusions.
2 5/8in (6.8cm) high Presumably, Prince Ding would have had access to Imperial
workshops and their mark carvers, however, from the variation in mark
US$8,000 - 10,000 styles, it is likely he also patronized carvers outside of the Imperial
workshops.

1800-1854年 黃玉雕福壽紋鼻煙壺 《行有恒堂》款 Further discussion on Prince Ding and works of art bearing his hall
mark, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of
The Xingyouheng Tang inscription links this bottle with the fifth Prince Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 1,
Ding, Zaichun, the son of the Daoguang emperor and great grandson Hong Kong, 1995, no. 150.
of the Qianlong emperor.
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