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A WHITE NEPHRITE MELON FORM SNUFF BOTTLE A FINE WHITE NEPHRITE ‘BROCADE-WRAPPED’ SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1830 Possibly Imperial, Palace Workshops, Beijing, 1750-1820
Naturalistically carved as a lobed melon, with leaves, tendrils, a Well-hollowed, of flattened rounded form with a cylindrical neck, flat
butterfly and a smaller melon wrapping around the body, the interior lip and a concave foot, well-carved in low relief with a brocade sash
well-hollowed, the exterior accented with a russet patch. densely incised with floral diapers within leiwen borders, wrapped
2 5/8in (6.2cm) high around the body of the bottle and gracefully tied to one side with a
$5,000 - 7,000 trailing ribbon over a qin instrument; the evenly-hued translucent stone
with russet strap-shaped inclusions to one side.
1750-1830年 白玉瓜瓞綿綿鼻煙壺 2 1/4in (5.7cm) high
$4,000 - 6,000
1750-1820年 擬宮廷作坊 白玉雕包袱紋鼻煙壺
A nearly identically shaped and designed white jade snuff bottle
in the Bloch Collection is illustrated by Moss, Graham and Tsang,
A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch
Collection, vol.1, no 27.
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