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A CARVED WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE A SILVER-INLAID AND HARDSTONE-INSET WHITE JADE
1850-1900 SNUFF BOTTLE
Of flattened oval shape, each side carved in low relief with an Modern
asymmetric leaf or cloud-shaped panel, one side depicting a scholar Of flattened oval shape, inlaid on each main face with a symmetric
and attendant seated at a rock table drinking tea below a pine tree ‘Mughal’ design of a budded floral spray with equally-spaced leafy
and a whispy-cloud, the other with a pine tree and an eight-character tendrils with rose-quartz and yellow hardstone buds, the stone of fairly
poem and mock seal, standing on a short shallowly scooped oval foot even tone that has a slight russet shade near the shallowly-cut oval
and below a cylindrical neck which is waisted just above the shoulder. foot.
2 1/32in (5.2cm) high, stopper 2 7/16in (6.1cm) high, stopper

$800 - 1,200 $1,200 - 1,800

1850-1900年 白玉雕人物詩文鼻煙壺 現代 嵌寶石掐銀絲白玉鼻煙壺

For a similarly inlaid and embellished nephrite bottle, see Hugh M.
Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, 1970, p. 16, no. 40, where it is
described as an early bottle with the decoration added post 1949.

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