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Jade snuff bottle
Jade snuff bottle
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1776
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Jade snuff bottle, decoration and poem about the golden chrysanthemum, stone set in silver mount/spoon
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Jade snuff bottle
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BATEA : 1775
Simple name
snuff bottle
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snuff bottle; jade; inscription; flower; insect
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Jade snuff bottle of elongated baluster form. One side has decoration of chrysanthemum flowers and leaves growing from rocks, insect in top left hand corner. Other side has 32 character inscription (including 4 character title on extreme right). Pale pink stone in beaded silver mount, shaft and spoon.
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jade
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good
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pale green
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7.5cm
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3.7cm
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A Poem on the Golden Chrysanthemums written by the Emperor (thought to be Qianlong)"The colour is borrowed from bright gold in Autumn;The flowers are glorious in the seventh and eight months.The Songs of Pin (note 1) are quoted in the Ch'un-fang p'u (note 2)'In the Lord's hall, they raised the drinking-cup of buffalo-horn'." (note 3)
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