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Cataloguer / Sale Coordinator, Chinese Works of Art

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1730-1830 瑪瑙荷包形鼻煙壺一件
或爲御製
Provenance:
Hanhai Auction, Beijing, 12 January 2004, lot 2105
Hugh Moss, Hong Kong, April 2006
來源:
瀚海拍賣行,北京,2004年1月12日,拍品號2105
莫士撝,香港,2006年4月
See Hugh Moss, Victor Graham, Ka Bo Tsang, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Quartz, Vol. 2, Part 1, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 206-209, no. 258, where this type of agate with internal mottling resembling clouds and known as 'Western agate' a presumably imported material, is discussed.
See also ibid, pp. 158-161, no. 239 where a more standard pouch-form type from the Official School are illustrated and discussed.