AN EMBELLISHED WHITE JADE BOTTLE

BOTTLE, 1750-1850; EMBELLISHMENT, JAPANESE, TSUDA FAMILY, 1940-1960

Details

AN EMBELLISHED WHITE JADE BOTTLE
Bottle, 1750-1850; embellishment, Japanese, Tsuda Family, 1940-1960
Of tapering rectangular shape, decorated in lacquer and variegated soapstone with a long-robed lady holding a branch of blossoming prunus standing amidst bamboo and chrysanthemum growing from rocky outcroppings, the reverse with a bird flying amidst flowering branches of chrysanthemum growing from a rock, the stone of even white tone, stopper
2 7/16in. (6.2cm.) high

Provenance

Hilda Somers Collection, acquired in 1953.

Lot Essay

For three further examples of embellished white jade bottles, the last certainly by the same hand as this one, see L. S. Perry, Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Adventures and Studies of a Collector, Rutland, Vermont, 1960, p. 144, nos. 150-152.

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