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A DATED AND INSCRIBED WHITE JADE 'IRON-RETREAT' SNUFF BOTTLE Dated Yisi year (1785), seventh month, followed by Tie an (Iron Retreat) image 1
A DATED AND INSCRIBED WHITE JADE 'IRON-RETREAT' SNUFF BOTTLE Dated Yisi year (1785), seventh month, followed by Tie an (Iron Retreat) image 2
A DATED AND INSCRIBED WHITE JADE 'IRON-RETREAT' SNUFF BOTTLE Dated Yisi year (1785), seventh month, followed by Tie an (Iron Retreat) image 3
PROPERTY FROM THE FRANCINE AND BERNARD WALD COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
Lot 262

A DATED AND INSCRIBED WHITE JADE 'IRON-RETREAT' SNUFF BOTTLE
Dated Yisi year (1785), seventh month, followed by Tie an (Iron Retreat)

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

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A DATED AND INSCRIBED WHITE JADE 'IRON-RETREAT' SNUFF BOTTLE

Dated Yisi year (1785), seventh month, followed by Tie an (Iron Retreat)
Of bulbous spade shape with rounded shoulders, the stone of a brilliant white color of even tone and delicately carved in relief with two short inscriptions to the upper right quadrant of each main side, the dated inscription on a plain ground, the four-character ode reading Yi pian bing xin (one piece of icy heart), below a low-relief prunus branch that falls from the neck, the narrow sides beautifully carved with naturalistic lion-mask fixed-ring handles, all below a cylindrical neck with concave rim, small mouth and well hollowed interior, supported on a short foot and a narrow rounded oval foot rim with slightly convex base, the exterior surface with a most attractive soft polish.
2 1/8in (5.4cm) high, stopper

Footnotes

乙巳 (1785) 白玉梅花圖刻紀年文字鼻煙壺一件

Provenance:
Robert Hall, London

來源:
Robert Hall,倫敦

Both sides with delicately relief-carved inscriptions, one dated Yisi year (1785), seventh month, followed by Tie an (Iron Retreat), the other reading Yi pian bing xin (one piece of icy heart), which appears to be a reference to the heart of the sage. Iron Retreat is not a recorded name for either a studio or assumed personal name but is rather apt since the 'pure heart' is the strongest retreat of all.

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