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CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME-XIXEME SIECLE
Details
TABATIERE EN JADE BLANC SCULPTE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME-XIXEME SIECLE
Shaped as a melon, the small bottle is finely carved in low relief with two butterflies dancing besides fruiting leafy branches. The stone is of a pale even white tone with minute dark inclusions.
1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) high, including stopper
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME-XIXEME SIECLE
Shaped as a melon, the small bottle is finely carved in low relief with two butterflies dancing besides fruiting leafy branches. The stone is of a pale even white tone with minute dark inclusions.
1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) high, including stopper
Provenance
The Professor Marcel Van Eyck Collection of Chinese snuff bottles (1910-1933), acquired in Shanghai in 1965.
Further details
A FINE WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
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