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A SUPERB BLACK, GREY, RUST-RED AND WHITE JADE 'FIVE DRAGONS AND CLOUDS' PEBBLE-FORM SNUFF BOTTLE 1730-1820 image 1
A SUPERB BLACK, GREY, RUST-RED AND WHITE JADE 'FIVE DRAGONS AND CLOUDS' PEBBLE-FORM SNUFF BOTTLE 1730-1820 image 2
A SUPERB BLACK, GREY, RUST-RED AND WHITE JADE 'FIVE DRAGONS AND CLOUDS' PEBBLE-FORM SNUFF BOTTLE 1730-1820 image 3
PROPERTY FROM THE FRANCINE AND BERNARD WALD COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
Lot 206

A SUPERB BLACK, GREY, RUST-RED AND WHITE JADE 'FIVE DRAGONS AND CLOUDS' PEBBLE-FORM SNUFF BOTTLE
1730-1820

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

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A SUPERB BLACK, GREY, RUST-RED AND WHITE JADE 'FIVE DRAGONS AND CLOUDS' PEBBLE-FORM SNUFF BOTTLE

1730-1820
The pebble material brilliantly used to suggest swirling patches of clouds and carved in a sensuous low relief with five sinuous three-clawed chi dragons coiling around the entire body amidst dense clouds, the pointed top of the pebble with a very small cylindrical mouth and well hollowed interior, supported on a simple shallow cut oval depression that forms the base.
2 1/2in (6.4cm) high, stopper

Footnotes

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.

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