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AN IMPERIAL WHITE AND RUSSET JADE SNUFF BOTTLE Engraved three-character studio mark, Yi Jin Zhai, 1750-1823 image 1
AN IMPERIAL WHITE AND RUSSET JADE SNUFF BOTTLE Engraved three-character studio mark, Yi Jin Zhai, 1750-1823 image 2
AN IMPERIAL WHITE AND RUSSET JADE SNUFF BOTTLE Engraved three-character studio mark, Yi Jin Zhai, 1750-1823 image 3
PROPERTY FROM THE FRANCINE AND BERNARD WALD COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
Lot 230

AN IMPERIAL WHITE AND RUSSET JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
Engraved three-character studio mark, Yi Jin Zhai, 1750-1823

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

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AN IMPERIAL WHITE AND RUSSET JADE SNUFF BOTTLE

Engraved three-character studio mark, Yi Jin Zhai, 1750-1823
of rounded square shape, the stone almost completely white, save for a small area of russet-skin on one shoulder, each side carved in relief with four seal-characters reading xu xin ying wu and x x gong x and bordered on the narrow sides by archaistic confronted ascending dragons their coiling key-pattern shaped bodies carved with c-scrolls, below a cylindrical neck with flat rim, small mouth and well hollowed interior, supported on a narrow flkat oval foot ring and flat base with engraved mark.
2 1/2in (6.3cm) high, stopper

Footnotes

1750-1823 御製棕白玉刻銘文仿古龍紋鼻煙壺一件
陰刻《詒晉齋》款

Provenance:
Jade House, Hong Kong, 1960's
J. M. Davenport Collection, Pennsyvania (The collection formed between 1960-1975)
Jadestone Gallery, Portland, Oregon, October 2006

來源:
Jade House,香港,1960年期間
J.M. Davenport舊藏,賓夕法尼亞(1960年-1975年之珍藏)
Jadestone Gallery,波特蘭,俄勒岡,2006年10月

The studio name Yijin Zhai was used by the Qianlong emperor's 11th son Yongxing, Prince Cheng (1752-1823), a noted calligrapher and collector of snuff bottles.

A plain clear crystal bottle of similar outline with the same three-character inscription, Yijin zhai to the base, see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Masterpieces from the Rietberg Museum Zurich, Zurich, 1993, pp. 68-69, no. 28

For an unmarked yellow jade bottle similarly carved with seal characters to each main face and almost identical dragon-form handles on the narrow sides, see lot 260 in this sale.

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