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A FINE BLACK AND GREY JADE SUZHOU SNUFF BOTTLE

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A FINE BLACK AND GREY JADE SUZHOU SNUFF BOTTLE
1780-1850

Carved and incised as a large carp settled on lotus leaves resting on two smaller carp lying tail to tail beneath, the larger and one small fish under a dark black inclusion, the plants and last fish under even pale grey stone -coral stopper

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Similar examples are illustrated by Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles, A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong 1994, p. 105, no. 51; Moss, Graham and Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J and J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 43, no. 6.

(US$35,000-45,000)

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