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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM A PARKER JR.
711
A WHITE JADE ‘BASKET WEAVE’ SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1830
Of compressed globular form with a cylindrical neck, flat lip and
concave foot, the sides carefully carved with a tight basket weave
design, the stone with icy white inclusions.
2 1/8in (5.4cm) high
$3,000 - 5,000

1750-1830年 白玉雕竹簍紋鼻煙壺

Provenance:
William A Parker Jr.

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM A PARKER JR.
712
711 A SHADOW AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
Suzhou School, 1825
Of rounded form, supported on a concave foot, the interior very well
hollowed, one side carved with the natural inclusions to highlight
a water buffalo being coaxed through a flowing stream, the waves
incised into the stone, reversed by an old man and a boy standing
on a precipice and looking at a gate across the way, with a poetic
inscription from the Tang poet Du Mu (803-852) carved in relief with a
date of jiyou.
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high

$5,000 - 8,000

己酉年（1825年）蘇州作瑪瑙巧雕「清明」詩句圖鼻煙壺

款識
牧童遥指杏花村 己酉春日

Provenance:
William A Parker Jr.

A similar Suzhou school bottle, also bearing the jiyou date and with the
same poetic inscription is illustrated in Hui The Imperial Connection,
712 (two views) Chinese Court Related Snuff Bottles from the Humphrey K. F. Hui
Collection, no. 91. Here the author eloquently translates the inscription
as “a shepherd boy points to the Apricot Village in the distance”.

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM A PARKER JR.

713
A MOLDED AND RETICULATED PORCELAIN ‘DRAGON’ SNUFF
BOTTLE
Qianlong mark, 19th century
Of rounded rectangular form, with a flat lip and straight neck, the oval
foot rim unglazed, the foot with an inscribed four-character Qianlong
nianzhi mark in seal script, the body deftly carved with a single five-
clawed dragon amid deeply recessed clouds and flames, the body
with an even pale yellow glaze, the dragon’s eyes punctuated with
black enamels.
2 1/2in (6.4cm) high
$3,000 - 5,000

十九世紀 黃釉模印鏤空雲龍紋鼻煙壺

Provenance:
713 William A Parker Jr.

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