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A LARGE GREENISH-YELLOW AND OPAQUE MILKY BROWN JADE
SNUFF BOTTLE
MASTER OF THE ROCKS SCHOOL, 1780-1850

The bottle is carved through the skin on one side with a sampan
moored between two banks of a river, with a pine tree growing on
the near bank and a small building raised on stilts amidst trees on the
far bank. On the reverse is a Chinese junk, and a small rock juts from
waves on one of the narrow sides. The stone is of yellowish olive-
green color.
2Ω in. (6.4 cm.) high, rose quartz stopper

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE:

Pamela R. Lessing Friedman Collection.
Robert Hall, London, 2005.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4282.

EXHIBITED:

Denver Art Museum, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Pamela R. Lessing
Friedman Collection, 1990.

LITERATURE:

P. R. Lessing Friedman, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Pamela R. Lessing
Friedman Collection, Denver, 1990, p. 98, no. 76.

For a discussion of the Master of the Rocks school see the note to lot 204.

1780-1850年 青黃玉雕亭臺山水圖大鼻煙壺

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