A Semi-Translucent Apple-Green Jadeite Bottle
A Semi-Translucent Apple-Green Jadeite Bottle

1850-1900

Details
A Semi-Translucent Apple-Green Jadeite Bottle
1850-1900
Of rounded spade shape, with a slightly waisted neck and a small concave foot, the translucent mint-green stone extremely well hollowed, stopper
2in. (5.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

For another jadeite bottle of less clarity from the Gerry P. Mack Collection, see Sotheby's, New York, 25 October 1997, lot 115.

For a jadeite 'floater' bottle of similar shape from the Frederick Von Schleinitz Collection, see Sotheby's, New York, 17 March 1997, lot 299; and another illustrated by Clare Lawrence, Miniature Masterpieces from the Middle Kingdom, The Monimar Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, 1996, pp. 178-179, no. 83. For another, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, vol. I, p. 121, no. 59

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