Footnotes

• Treasury 1, no. 181
  
  翡翠光素鼻煙壺
  
  A jadeite snuff bottle
  
  Jadeite; very well hollowed, with a flat foot and concave lip
  1780–1880
  Height: 6.21 cm
  Mouth/lip: 0.51/1.86 cm
  Stopper: tourmaline; gilt-silver collar
  
  Condition: Workshop condition
  
  Provenance:
  Ashkenazie and Co., San Francisco (1988)
  
  Published:
  JICSBS, Spring 1982, inside back cover
  Arts of Asia, September–October 1990, p. 95
  Kleiner, Yang, and Shangraw 1994, no. 56
  Treasury 1, no. 181
  
  Exhibited:
  Hong Kong Museum of Art, March–June 1994
  National Museum, Singapore, November 1994–February 1995
  
  The stone has a clearly visible fibrous texture that adds considerably to the surface fascination and lends a sense of energy to the mottled markings. As jewellery, it would fail to gain top marks because of a lack of translucent areas free of distinct fibrous markings. As a snuff bottle, however, where the very finest jewellery material never appears, it is a stunning colour. It is also well made, with excellent formal integrity, a well-detailed lip, and hollowing as painstaking as on any known jadeite snuff bottle of this highly valued, emerald-green jadeite material.
  
  On the introduction of Burmese jadeite as a material for snuff bottles, see Sale 1, lot 32.
  
  翡翠光素鼻煙壺
  
  翡翠； 掏膛非常規整，平底凹唇
  1780–1880
  高﹕ 6.21 厘米
  口徑/唇徑： 0.51/1.86 厘米
  蓋﹕ 碧璽； 鎏金銀座
  
  狀態敘述： 出坊狀態
  
  來源:
  Ashkenazie and Co., San Francisco (1988)
  
  文獻﹕
  《國際中國鼻煙壺協會的學術期刊》, Spring 1982年春期，封底內
  Arts of Asia, September–October 1990, p. 95
  Kleiner, Yang, and Shangraw 1994, 編號 56
  Treasury 1, 編號 181
  
  展覽﹕
  香港藝術館，1994年3月～6月
  National Museum of Singapore,1994年11月～1995年2月
  
  本壺石料含纖維，質地具有趣味性。而且，工藝高超，形式整合，唇雕的精細，掏膛精緻工巧。
  
  關於緬甸翡翠導入中國的事，參閱 第一場拍賣會， 拍賣品號 32.

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