清乾隆 青白玉鼻煙壺 《乾隆年製》款

Sydney L. Moss Ltd，倫敦
White Wings 收藏
Robert Kleiner，倫敦，2000年

Robert Kleiner，《Chinese Snuff Bottles: The White Wings Collection》，香港，1997年，編號11

The overall condition is very good, apart from some natural flaws in the stone.
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This is one of a small group of nephrite bottles made at the Palace workshops during the earlier part of the Qianlong period when neatly written, seal-script marks were one of the standard forms. A good deal of the nephrite used was not independently of the finest, purest material since at that time the jade-mining regions were not under Chinese control, but in any case, the Qianlong emperor clearly appreciated a wide range of nephrite from the purest white and yellow to a range of much duller and flawed material, applying the same standards of formal elegance, exemplified here, and imperial reign marks to them all. This is one of a small number of these impressive, uncompressed, vase- or bottle-shaped forms, two of which were in the Bloch collection (see also lot 28 in the present sale).