AN UNUSUAL AND WELL-CARVED RUSSET AND WHITE JADE PEBBLE BOTTLE
AN UNUSUAL AND WELL-CARVED RUSSET AND WHITE JADE PEBBLE BOTTLE

1760-1840

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AN UNUSUAL AND WELL-CARVED RUSSET AND WHITE JADE PEBBLE BOTTLE
1760-1840
Of pebble form, carved through the mottled buff-colored skin on one side with flowering prunus and pierced rockwork, the reverse of even white tone with a bat and blossoming chrysanthemum carved in the white jade, stopper
2¼in. (6.4cm.) high
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, Fine and Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Bob C. Stevens, Part II, 26 March 1982, lot 150.
Literature
B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, p. 114, no. 373.

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