A green nephrite snuff bottle.Likely Palace Workshops, Beijing 1760-1800. Photo Bonhams.

Of flattened spade shape, with a flat, everted lip, and a concave oval foot, one face incised with a blossoming branch highlighted by gilding, reversed by an intaglio inscription in clerical script titled Yuzhi Xinglun Shi (Imperial Produced Poem of the Apricot Tree) the characters with traces of gilding. 2 1/2in (6.3cm) high. Estimate US$ 7,000 - 9,000 (€5,000 - 6,500)

Property from the Collection of Emmanuel Dimitri Gran (1894-1969)

Bonhams.CHINESE ART FROM THE SCHOLAR'S STUDIO. 17 Mar 2014, New York - www.bonhams.com