AN UNUSUAL JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE

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AN UNUSUAL JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1860

Carved from jadeite of ice-green tones with a few areas of brilliant apple-green and with an area of rich russet-red cleverly used to create the upper part of the neck, stopper
2 1/8 in. (5.38 cm.) high

Provenance

Arthur Loveless
Gertrude Stuart
Hugh M. Moss Ltd.
Elisabeth and Ladislas Kardos
Sotheby's New York, 1 July 1985, lot 134
Hugh M. Moss Ltd.

Literature

Chinese Snuff Bottles. An Exhibition from British Columbia Collectors, Catalogue and coloured slide folder, no. 17
Moss et. al., The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J&J Collection, vol. 1, no. 67

Exhibited

Vancouver Centennial Exhibition, October 1977
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

Lot Essay

Chinese carvers were renowned for their ability to transform natural markings in materials to good advantage, exemplified here with the imaginative use of the unusual orange-red color in the material to form a collar for the neck.

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