Lot Essay
This is one of the finest diamond-point engraved jades bottles known, with exquisite drawing married to a bottle of a elegant and unusually shape.
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1770-1860
Details
A VERY RARE FINELY INCISED WHITE JADE BOTTLE
1770-1860
Of elongated, flattened ovoid form, finely incised with boating scenes on West Lake in Hangzhou, the Bangshi Pagoda on one side, a gnarled pine tree on the reverse, stopper
2 5/8in. (6.9cm.) high
1770-1860
Of elongated, flattened ovoid form, finely incised with boating scenes on West Lake in Hangzhou, the Bangshi Pagoda on one side, a gnarled pine tree on the reverse, stopper
2 5/8in. (6.9cm.) high
Provenance
Hilda Somers Collection, acquired prior to 1952.
Exhibited
Chinese Snuff Bottles, Taipei Gallery, New York, October 1993.