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AN INSCRIBED WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1820
The bottle is delicately incised and gilt on both sides with a ffty-six-character poem
about beauties and the seasons, followed on one side by a gourd-shaped seal reading yunlin
(forest of clouds), and on the other side with a seal reading yuying (crystal). The stone is
of an even, white tone.
2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper
$12,000-15,000
PROVENANCE
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2000.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2933.
EXHIBITED
Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention,
The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
A comparable bottle from The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuf
Bottles: Part IV was sold at Christie’s New York, 15 March 2017, lot 318. For an example
of a yellow jade bottle incised with a Qianlong Imperial poem on either side, and a further
discussion of imperially inscribed jade bottles, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of
Chinese Snuf Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. I, Hong Kong, 1995,
pp. 266-69, no. 109.
1750-1820年 白玉詩文鼻煙壺

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