PROBABLY IMPERIAL, 1770-1830

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A MILKY EMERALD-GREEN JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL, 1770-1830
The well-hollowed bottle is of flattened, ovoid form. The softly polished stone is suffused with pale, milky emerald-green cloud-like mottling.
2 1/16 in. (5.3 cm.) high, rose quartz stopper

Provenance

Hugh Moss, London, 1987.

Exhibited

Taipei Gallery, New York, Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1-29 October 1993, p. 15.

Special notice

Items which contain rubies or jadeite originating in Burma (Myanmar) may not be imported into the U.S. As a convenience to our bidders, we have marked these lots with Y. Please be advised that a purchaser¹s inability to import any such item into the U.S. or any other country shall not constitute grounds for non-payment or cancellation of the sale. With respect to items that contain any other types of gemstones originating in Burma (e.g., sapphires), such items may be imported into the U.S., provided that the gemstones have been mounted or incorporated into jewellery outside of Burma and provided that the setting is not of a temporary nature (e.g., a string).

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Lot Essay

While jadeite varies in tone from emerald green to lavender to red, the material used here is quite unusual and has a distinctive, rather milky emerald-green color and textural pattern. There is a small group of bottles of this distinctive stone, all presumably from a single boulder, which are discussed by Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 1, Jade, Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 472-3, no. 187 (carved in the form of a melon). Other plain examples of similar shape include one illustrated by Moss, Graham, Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Vol. I, New York, 1993, p. 127, no. 64 and subsequently sold in these rooms, 29 March 2006, lot 83, and in H. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, London, 1971, p. 67, no. 4.

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