A Carved Yellow Jade 'Crane and Pine' Snuff Bottle

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清晚期黃玉雕松鶴紋鼻煙壺
the small baluster bottle carved on one side showing a standing crane, the other pine branches, flanked by a pair of lion heads and mock ring handles, the stone of an even colored tone, with a hardstone stopper.

Height 2 5/8 in., 6.7 cm.

Property from a Private Collection, Highland Park, Illinois

In overall good and stable condition: spoon and stopper present and intact. The stone with some natural inclusions to the shoulder. Total weight 70.6 grams.

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Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.

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