An Imperial yellow jade 'meiping' snuff bottle, Palace Workshops, Qing dynasty, 18th century. Photo courtesy Sotheby's. 

5.7 cm., 2 1/4  in. Estimation 140,000 — 160,000 HKD 

Provenance: Sotheby’s New York, 12th October 1993, lot 204. 

Exposition: Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, British Museum, London, 1995, cat. no. 56. 

Litterature: Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 1, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 76. 

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