Lot 10: Property of Dr. Martin Roshco

Qianlong mark, bottle 1720-1800
Of compressed globular form, flat lip, its rounded oval foot rim surrounding a recessed foot, the interior very well-hollowed, the exterior carved as a brocade wrapped qin, the front of the instrument visible on one side of the bottle and the back of the instrument on the reverse, the wrapping cloth with a repeating petal diaper motif and a leiwen border, a seal script six-character Qianlong mark to the base.
2 1/8in (5.3cm) high

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Provenance:
Sotheby's, London, October 13, 1987 lot 129
Collection of Eric Young

A nearly identically designed white jade snuff bottle in the Bloch collection is illustrated in Moss, Graham and Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol.1 no 27. A second 'wrapped qin' bottle in white jade, of a different shape, is illustrated in Humphrey Hui The Imperial Connection, no. 62