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Cataloguer / Sale Coordinator, Chinese Works of Art

Senior Vice President, US Head, Asian Art Group

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1730-1800 碧玉刻「福壽圖」鼻煙壺一件
或爲宮廷作坊製
Provenance:
Early Private French Collection
Laurence Souksi, Paris, June 2006
Hugh Moss, Hong Kong, 2006
來源:
早期法國私人收藏
Laurence Souksi,巴黎,2006年6月
莫士撝,香港,2006年
Five Bats, wufu, represent the Five Blessings (longevity, wealth, health, love of virtue and a peaceful, natural death). While a common theme, the motif here is used, unusually, as the complete overall decoration, the bats wrapping around the entire bottle in low relief.
This type of green nephrite can be found in Xinjiang province (formerly Turkestan, and the main source for Chinese carvers, but brought under Chinese control in 1759) where it was found as boulders in two rivers running out of the Kunlun Mountains known as the 'Black Jade' and 'White Jade' rivers. It is softer in tone and less speckled than the standard, later material, which was mined, and which is typically very dark green with black speckling throughout.