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Lot Description

A Chinese Green and White Jadeite Snuff Bottle

19TH CENTURY

清中期翡翠素面鼻烟壶
the petite bottle and stopper softly polished from a pale icy stone mottled with streaks of apple green to a compressed pear form.

Height of bottle 1 7/8 in., 4.7 cm.

Property from The Strong National Museum of Play, sold to benefit the Collections Fund

Accessioned by the Strong in 1978.

Condition Report

Presenting in good attractive condition, with some minor fleabites about the mouth rim. Well hollowed. Spoon and stopper present and intact. Residual museum wax to base alongside handwritten accession number.

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