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1730-1820 卵石形黑白玉帶棕沁刻五龍騰雲鼻煙壺一件
Provenance:
Jade House, Hong Kong, 26 July 1999
Bonhams, New York, 10 September 2018, lot 22
Robert Hall, Asian Art Ltd., 16 September 2018
來源:
Jade House,香港,1999年7月26日
邦瀚斯,紐約,2018年9月10日,拍品號22
Robert Hall Asian Art Ltd.,2018年9月16日
For a very similar pebble bottle also carved with dragons amidst clouds, though depicting four, rather than the five on the Wald example, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong, Vol. 1, Jade 1995, pp. 336-337, no. 132.
Due to the similarities mentioned above along with a near identical size, it is tempting to suggest that the Bloch bottle might be the pair to our example; the combination of the dragons adding to nine, a more auspicious numbering; however, the scales on the dragons of the Bloch example, are quite unlike the undecorated and more silky and sinuous chi dragons on the Wald bottle and this seems unlikely despite the obvious parallels.