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A reticulated blue and white porcelain 'Wang Xizhi' snuff…
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Sydney
Date:
21-Jun-2017
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A reticulated blue and white porcelain 'Wang Xizhi' snuff bottle, Qing dynasty, Daoguang period, supported on a reticulated slightly splayed foot, either side delicately painted with figures in a garden setting, two pierced mask handles, stopper, 5.7 cm high. Provenance: Sotheby's, Billingshurst, 25 June 1991, lot 3. The Mary & George Bloch Collection: Part VII, Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 26 November 2013, lot 116. Exhibited. Chinese Snuff Bottles: A Miniature Art from the Collection of George and Mary Bloch, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat. no. 174. National Museum of Singapore, Singapore, 1994-1995. Literature. Robert Kleiner, Boda Yang, and Clarence F. Shangraw, Chinese Snuff Bottles: A Miniature Art from the Collection of George and Mary Bloch, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat. no. 174. Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 6, Hong Kong, 2007, no. 1287
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