A FINE WHITE JADE 'MILLET, BIRD AND BAT' BOTTLE1760-1830
Of flattened elongated spade shape, the almost transparent white jade of a pure even color and well hollowed, the main sides each carved in subtle low relief with a millet spray rising from rockwork, and one side including a bird on a separate rock below a bat and a lingzhi at the sloping shoulder above, a simple shallowly cut concave oval foot.
2 1/4in (5.3cm) high, stopperFootnotes1760-1830 白玉刻靈芝富貴圖鼻煙壺一件
Provenance:
Eugene Y.C. Sung Collection, Ohio and New York
來源：
Eugene Y.C. Sung藏，俄亥俄州、紐約州
For a bottle of both similar tapering shape and with extremely delicate low relief carving, see Denis S.K. Low, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect III, Singapore, 2007, p.76, no. 57.
A FINE WHITE JADE 'MILLET, BIRD AND BAT' BOTTLE1760-1830
Of flattened elongated spade shape, the almost transparent white jade of a pure even color and well hollowed, the main sides each carved in subtle low relief with a millet spray rising from rockwork, and one side including a bird on a separate rock below a bat and a lingzhi at the sloping shoulder above, a simple shallowly cut concave oval foot.
2 1/4in (5.3cm) high, stopperFootnotes1760-1830 白玉刻靈芝富貴圖鼻煙壺一件
Provenance:
Eugene Y.C. Sung Collection, Ohio and New York
來源：
Eugene Y.C. Sung藏，俄亥俄州、紐約州
For a bottle of both similar tapering shape and with extremely delicate low relief carving, see Denis S.K. Low, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect III, Singapore, 2007, p.76, no. 57.
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