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A FINE YELLOW JADE ‘SQUIRREL AND GRAPES’ A YELLOW AND RUSSET JADE ‘DOUBLE-GOURD’
SNUFF BOTTLE SNUFF BOTTLE
Qing Dynasty Xingyouheng tang seal mark
The bottle of rectangular form with rounded sides, rising from a flat The bottle of flattened double-gourd form rising to a straight neck
base to a short cylindrical neck, intricately carved deeply carved with and flat lip, the mid-section of the gourd encircled by a loose ring,
clambering squirrels interspersed between gnarled tree trunks issuing the concave base carved with four characters, the greenish stone
entwining branches, borne with scrolling leafy vine and suspended with with russet and brown inclusions, the inscription reading ‘Hall of
clusters of grapes. Constancy’.
6cm (2 3/8in) high 6cm (2 3/8in) high.

£2,000 - 3,000 £3,500 - 5,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000 CNY31,000 - 45,000

清 黃玉葡萄多子鼻煙壺 黃玉帶皮葫蘆活環鼻煙壺
「行有恆堂」篆書刻款
Provenance: a distinguished Asian private collection
Provenance: a distinguished Asian private collection
來源： 顯貴亞洲私人收藏
來源： 顯貴亞洲私人收藏

A related ‘Kardos Ringed-jade’ snuff bottle, circa 1730-1800, is
illustrated by H.Moss, V.Graham and K.B.Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese
Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection: Vol.1, Jade,
Hong Kong, 1995, pp.182-183, no.73. Another jade ‘oil basket’ snuff
bottle with Xingyouheng tang (The Hall of Constancy) mark, 1750-
1854, is illustrated by H.Franz, Chinese Art from the Hedda and Lutz
Franc Collection: Jade, Hong Kong, 2010, p.130, no.598.

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