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AN IMPERIAL WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE Engraved four-character 'Princ Ding Zaichuan' hall mark to the base, Xing You Heng Tang, (Hall of Constancy), Jiaqing-Xianfeng, 1796-1861 image 1
AN IMPERIAL WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE Engraved four-character 'Princ Ding Zaichuan' hall mark to the base, Xing You Heng Tang, (Hall of Constancy), Jiaqing-Xianfeng, 1796-1861 image 2
PROPERTY FROM THE FRANCINE AND BERNARD WALD COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
Lot 255

AN IMPERIAL WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
Engraved four-character 'Princ Ding Zaichuan' hall mark to the base, Xing You Heng Tang, (Hall of Constancy), Jiaqing-Xianfeng, 1796-1861

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
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AN IMPERIAL WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE

Engraved four-character 'Princ Ding Zaichuan' hall mark to the base, Xing You Heng Tang, (Hall of Constancy), Jiaqing-Xianfeng, 1796-1861
Of flattened rounded rectangular shape with plain sides, the cylindrical neck with flat lip and small mouth, all supported on a short oval foot with rounded foot rim and flat base with engraved mark.
2 1/2in (6.3cm) high, stopper

Footnotes

1796-1861 嘉慶-咸豐 御製素面白玉鼻煙壺一件
定郡王載川《行有恆堂》款

Provenance:
Robert Kleiner & Co. Ltd., London, February 1992 ($8,200)

來源:
Robert Kleiner & Co. Ltd.,倫敦,1992年2月

Prince Ding Zaichuan was a Manchu prince during the Qing dynasty. He was the fifth person to hold the title of Prince Ding, and the great-great-grandson of the Qianlong Emperor. The fifth Prince Ding Zaichuan rose to high official rank of his own accord during the Daoguang and Xianfeng reigns. He was a noted poet, collector and patron of the arts. For further reading see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2, Part 2, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 481-482, no. 359.

See Bonhams, New York, 19 March 2024, lot 422, for a dated rock crystal bottle inscribed Xianfeng xinhai chun Xingyouheng Tang zhi (Made for the Hall of Constancy, spring of the xinhai year (1851) of the Xianfeng period year. The calligraphy of the mark on that bottle compares closely to that found on ours. For another clear rock crystal bottle with a four-character 'Xingyouhengtang' mark, see Robert Kleiner, Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, Singapore, 1999, p. 204, no. 175.

See also another Prince Ding Zaichuan hall-marked yellow jade bottle in this sale, lot 267

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