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    New York, Park Avenue

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    3 June 1993

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    Lot 376 | VARIOUS PROPERTIES Read more

    A RARE GREEN DUAN INKSTONE BOTTLE

    Price realised

    USD 3,680

    Estimate

    USD 2,500 - USD 3,000

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    A RARE GREEN DUAN INKSTONE BOTTLE
    YUZHI MARK, QIANLONG

    Of flattened rounded shape, carved in low relief on one side with confronted archaistic chilong forming the character long (dragon), and a two-line poem and imperial mark bordered by two further dragons on the other, divided by mask and ring handles, the stone of attractive teadust-green tone with paler inclusions, traces of black pigment to outlines, minute chips

    Provenance

    Katherine Kitchin Collection

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    Lot Essay

    The poem describes the smooth, silky quality of duan stone as found in Duanxi, and is identical to the script on a bottle illustrated in Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Douglas Johnston and Other Collections, The Chinese Porcelain Co., Catalogue, col. pl. 62

    For a similar bottle see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, April 30, 1991, lot 343

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