A WELL-CARVED WHITE JADE BOTTLE

POSSIBLY IMPERIAL, 1750-1840

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A WELL-CARVED WHITE JADE BOTTLE
Possibly Imperial, 1750-1840
Naturalistically carved in the form of an eggplant, carved overall with a flowering leafy branch and a flying insect, the stone of white tone with areas of very faint russet mottling, stopper
2¾in. (7cm.) high

Provenance

Hilda Somers Collection, acquired prior to 1952.

Lot Essay

Compare similar white jade bottles of fruit or vegetable form made for the Court still in the Imperial Collection, see Chang Lin-sheng, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, pp. 156-160, nos. 136-150.

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