Details
A FINE AND RARE WHITE JADE FLATTENED SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1730-1750
With a rounded rectangular mouth and deeply recessed foot, the sides flanked by two pairs of archaistic kui dragon handles, drilled for suspension, stopper
2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Michael Stern
Sydney L. Moss Ltd.
Alex S. Cussons
Hugh M. Moss Ltd.
Raymond Li, Hong Kong, 1982
Literature
An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Sydney L. Moss Ltd., no. 21
Raymond Li, The Medicine-Snuff Bottle Connection. Chinese Miniature Containers. A Dual Role, back cover and no. 26
Snuff Bottles of the Ch'ing Dynasty, pp. 98 and 137, no. 154
JICSBS, December 1978, p. 34, fig. 154
Moss et. al., The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J&J Collection, vol. 1, no. 39
Snuff Bottles Aus China Sammlung J&J, Frankfurt, 1996, p. 17
The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle - The J&J Collection. An Exhibition at the Percival David Foundation, London, 1997, p. 10
The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, Poly Art Museum, Beijing, p. 22
The Miniature World - An Exhibition of Snuff Bottles from the J & J Collection, Taipei, p. 18
Exhibited
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, March-April 1965
Hong Kong Museum of Art, October-December 1978
Christie's New York, 1993
Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1994
Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, 1996-1997
Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997
Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2002
Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 2002
National Museum of History, Taipei, 2002
International Asian Art Fair, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, 2003
Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2003
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