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    Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Gerry P Mack

    London, South Kensington

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    4 October 1999

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    • A Yellow Jade Baluster Bottle
    Lot 112

    A Yellow Jade Baluster Bottle

    1750-1790

    Price realised

    GBP 4,600

    Estimate

    GBP 1,800 - GBP 3,000

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    A Yellow Jade Baluster Bottle
    1750-1790
    Of flattened octagonal baluster shape, with high shoulders tapering to a narrow, slightly flaring base, the surface faceted with subtle brown highlights in the upper part of the stone, stopper
    2.11/16in. (6.9cm.) high

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    Lot Essay

    For another yellow jade bottle of slightly less pronounced meiping shape, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong, 1995, vol. I, Jade, pp. 194-195, no. 78.

    For a white and russet pebble bottle of nearly identical profile, including recessed foot, though quite different in overall design, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, vol. I, p. 101, no. 43

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    Saleroom Notice

    PROVENANCE: George Fischer Collection, 1930's
    Guy Mayer Collection, 1952


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