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A CARVED GREY AND BLACK JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY SUZHOU SCHOOL, 1760-1850
The compressed body is carved overall with swirling clouds and
scale-like skies, with two horned dragons weaving their bodies
through the clouds in pursuit of the flaming pearl located at the side.
2w in. (7.8 cm.) high, rose quartz stopper
$16,000-20,000

PROVENANCE

Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2004.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 4066.

EXHIBITED

Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Convention, The Barron
Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
Based on the size, material and ingenious use of the natural
markings in the stone, we can likely attribute this bottle to the
second phase of production of the Suzhou school. As Moss
points out, “The second phase probably began to evolve during
the Kangxi period but was certainly established by the early
Qianlong...One feature of this classic group is that many of them
are fairly large bottles, and as we have already suggested, large
bottles do not seem to have evolved as a standard form until the
Qianlong period” (see Moss and Tsang, The Art of the Chinese
Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, 1993, p. 66).
䍆Ọ蒗ⅸ聖㌉

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