Bottle ID: 826

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IMPERIAL, WHITE, WITH POETIC INSCRIPTION

Date: 1736-1795

Height: 57 mm

A nephrite snuff bottle, very well-hollowed, of flattened, tapering shield shape, with rounded shoulders, with a waisted neck and straightened lip, the foot of oval shape, of even bright white tone, incised on one main side with a poetic inscription, the reverse with a branch of blossoming prunus below a poetic inscription reading:
‘Although the snow is very white, the fragrance of the prunus is more beautiful than the snow’, 
And with a four character  Qianlong yu zhi (by Imperial Command) mark to one side, and of the period. 
Imperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing 

 

Provenance:

Clare Chu Asian Art
Zhenliu Xuan Collection, CA.  
Philip Harvey, CA

Published:

Clare Chu. Chinese Snuff Bottles from Southern Californian Collectors, Catalogue of an Exhibition at LACMA, Los Angeles, CA., 2016, p. 102.

Exhibited:
 

Chinese Snuff Bottles from Southern Californian Collectors, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA., September, 2016 – February, 2017

 

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