A FINE PALE WHITE JADE BOTTLE

1760-1840

Details

A FINE PALE WHITE JADE BOTTLE
1760-1840
Of flattened high-shouldered tapering form with waisted neck, the smooth, finely polished stone with pale greenish tinge, stopper
2 7/16in. (6cm.) high

Provenance

Hugh M. Moss Ltd., London.
Count Kurt Graf Blücher von Wahlstatt Collection.

Literature

H. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, London, 1971, p. 70, no 25.

Exhibited

Chinese Snuff Bottles, Taipei Gallery, New York, October 1993, p. 15.

Lot Essay

For two very similar bottles, also with coral and gilt-bronze stoppers, but with additional Palace engraving, still in the Imperial Collection, see Chang Lin-sheng, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, p. 169, nos. 171 and 173.

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