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A WHITE JADE BOTTLE

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A WHITE JADE BOTTLE
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Of moon flask shape, with raised circular panels to the sides and raised vertival oval panels to the narrow sides , the foot oval and shallowly cut, the neck cylindrical, the stone with a slight russet cast in places--2 3/16in. (5.5cm.) high, stopper

Lot Essay

For a similar bottle see Sotheby's, New York, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, December 2, 1985, lot 162; and another of smaller and more slender shape, see Humphrey K.F. Hui and Christopher C. H. Sin, An Imperial Qing Tradition, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 63, pl. 61

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