AN INSCRIBED YELLOW JADE SNUFF BOTTLE

18TH CENTURY

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AN INSCRIBED YELLOW JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY
The bottle is of an attractive rounded pebble form and is incribed to one side with poetic lines followed by two seal marks each containing one character. The stone is of an even pale yellow tone with russet inclusions.
2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) high overall, stopper

Provenance

With Spink & Son Ltd., London, 8 December 1960.
Property from an Important Private European Collection.

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Lot Essay

The poetic inscription is read as 'tao ling jiu bei san jing ju, du ling shi cao bai hua tang'. This refers to the famous poets Tao Yuanming (circa. 365-427) of the Six Dynasties period and Du Fu (712-770) of the Tang Dynasty. It alludes to Tao Yuanming's wine cup and his three rows of chrysanthemum, as well as Du Fu's poetry and his studio with hundreds of flowers.

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