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TWO JADE SNUFF BOTTLES A JADEITE ROUNDED SNUFF BOTTLE
530 Y Qing Dynasty AND A JADEITE ‘MELON’ SNUFF BOTTLE
A GROUP OF FIVE JADE AND AGATE The first with a concave lip and slightly 19th century
SNUFF BOTTLES recessed base, carved in low relief with The rounded snuff bottle smoothly polished,
19th century mythical beasts, the stone of a creamy ivory with milky-white inclusions and apple-green
Comprising: a pale green jade bottle with a hue; the second bottle of pebble form, the striations, with stopper and stand. 5.5cm (2
flattened russet skin, stopper; a pale green stone of an interesting red and brown mottled 1/8in) high; the ‘melon’ snuff bottle carved
jade gourd-form bottle with a russet bat to hue. 7.5cm (3in) high (2). with leafy tendrils, with coral stopper and
one side, matching coral stopper; a ‘shadow’ stand. 4cm (1 1/2in) high (5).
agate bottle carved in low relief with a fish, £1,200 - 1,500
stopper; a green jade peach-form bottle with CNY10,000 - 13,000 HK$12,000 - 15,000 £1,500 - 2,000
high relief tendrils and a bat; a brown agate CNY13,000 - 17,000 HK$15,000 - 20,000
bottle with frolicking Buddhist lions, stopper;
together with a pale green jade water pot. Provenance
A distinguished European private collection
The largest: 6.5cm (2 1/2in) high (11).
A related jadeite rounded snuff bottle, dated
£1,000 - 1,500 late 18th or early 19th century, which was
CNY8,600 - 13,000 HK$10,000 - 15,000 given as a gift to Queen Mary from George V
on Christmas 1918, is in the Royal Collection
Trust, no.RCIN 23843.
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