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A WELL-CARVED BROWN AND PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE ‘CARP’ SNUFF BOTTLE
1789-1850

The bottle is fnely carved with three entwined fsh. The tail of the pale greenish-white fsh
continues under the tail of one of the brown fanking fsh onto the reverse, while the tail of
the third brown fsh continues onto the shoulder where it wraps around the neck.
2¡ in. (6 cm.) high, glass stopper

$10,000-12,000

PROVENANCE:

Sara Jo and Arthur Kobacker Collection, no. 62.
Robert Hall, London, 2011.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5205.

This bottle belongs to a range of bottles, mostly in agate or jade, which are all inspired by the same
idea of intertwined fsh, using the natural markings in the material to considerable and inventive
advantage. The group is discussed by H. Moss in Chinese Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group,
London, 1971, p. 83, nos. 214 and 215 and again by Moss, Graham, Tsang, The Art of the Chinese
Snuff Bottle. The J & J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, Volume I, p. 254, no. 158. Many bottles of this
group seem to be from the same lapidary workshop. Particularly noteworthy on the present example
are the feather-like tails of the fsh, which are fnely ridged, cleverly woven through the design and
subtly wound around the neck of the bottle.

1789-1850年 灰青玉雕鯉魚紋鼻煙壺

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