A fine white jade 'basket-weave' snuff bottle18th/19th century
Of compressed rectangular form supported on an oblong recessed foot, deftly carved overall with a woven basket-work, the stone of an even white tone, the jade stopper in the form of a flowerhead mounted in metal. 6.4cm (2 1/2in) high (2).注脚十八/十九世紀 白玉雕魚簍鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Sotheby's New York, 29 November 1994, lot 527
The Angela Chua Collection

來源：
紐約蘇富比，1994年11月29日，拍品編號527
蔡劉木蘭收藏

For a very similar example, see a white jade 'basket-weave' snuff bottle, 1810-1854, in the collection of Denis Low, illustrated by R.Kleiner, Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, p.49, no.37. Compare also with a white jade example, Qianlong/Jiaqing, illustrated by H.Moss, V.Graham and K.B.Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol.1, Hong Kong, 1998, no.149, which was later sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27 May 2013, lot 176.

白玉質，扁身，滿雕竹篾紋，仿魚簍貌，玉質白潤，刀工規整。

參考一件劉修敬藏清中期白玉雕魚簍鼻煙壺，見R.Kleiner著，《Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect》，頁49，編號37。另可參考一件清乾隆/嘉慶時期白玉鼻煙壺，見莫仕撝、V.Graham及曾嘉寶著，《瑪麗及莊智博鼻煙壺珍藏》，卷1，香港，1998年，編號149，後售於香港蘇富比，2013年5月27日，拍品編號176。