1750-1820

Details

AN INSCRIBED WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1820
The bottle is delicately incised and gilt on both sides with a fifty-six-character poem about beauties and the seasons, followed on one side by a gourd-shaped seal reading yunlin (forest of clouds), and on the other side with a seal reading yuying (crystal). The stone is of an even, white tone.
2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper

Provenance

Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2000.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2933.

Exhibited

Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

A comparable bottle from The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part IV was sold at Christie's New York, 15 March 2017, lot 318. For an example of a yellow jade bottle incised with a Qianlong Imperial poem on either side, and a further discussion of imperially inscribed jade bottles, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. I, Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 266-69, no. 109.

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