Lot Essay
See a similar bottle in H. Moss, V. Graham, K.B. Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong 1995, vol. 1, Jade, no. 28.
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1740-1820
Details
AN UNUSUAL CARVED WHITE JADE BOTTLE
1740-1820
Of flattened spherical form, crisply carved in low relief with four tasselled auspicious emblems on a finely incised brocade diaper ground, the reverse with a ten-character poetic inscription in relief inspired by the four objects on the opposite side, the stone of even tone with a small patch of russet mottling to one side, stopper
2¾in. (7cm.) high
1740-1820
Of flattened spherical form, crisply carved in low relief with four tasselled auspicious emblems on a finely incised brocade diaper ground, the reverse with a ten-character poetic inscription in relief inspired by the four objects on the opposite side, the stone of even tone with a small patch of russet mottling to one side, stopper
2¾in. (7cm.) high
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Alice B. McReynolds, Part II, 16 April 1985, lot 166.