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Friday, April 19, 2024

Auctions - USA & Canada

Chinese Art from the Scholar's Studio

Bonhams New York
580 Madison Avenue,
New York 10022, USA
Sep 14, 2015

Phone No.: +1 212 644 9001
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Site URL: http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22461/

A white nephrite 'silk purse' snuff bottle

Possibly Imperial, Palace Workshops, Beijing, 1780-1850
2in (5.1cm) high
Of flattened semi-circular form, expertly carved to the front and reverse in relief with grooves imitating the pleats of a silk purse and gathered at the short neck, each of the narrow sides with a pair of apertures for attachment bordered with symmetrically designed with leafy lotus flowers carved in the Mughal style; the mostly white stone with cloud-like inclusions.