Lot 550
550
ANOTHER PROPERTY
A WHITE JADE BOTTLE

Details
A WHITE JADE BOTTLE
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Of spade shape, the sides delicately carved with lobes to suggest a fruit, the foot flat, the neck spreading slightly, minute chip polish at rim, stopper

Lot Essay

For an identical bottle see Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, pp. 112-113, no. 357. For an example in transparent purple glass, formerly in the Marian Mayer Collection, see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles, II, 1989, p. 115, no. 95