A JADEITE ‘MASK HANDLE’ SNUFF BOTTLE
A JADEITE ‘MASK HANDLE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

PROBABLY IMPERIAL, QING DYNASTY, 1760-1850

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A JADEITE ‘MASK HANDLE’ SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL, QING DYNASTY, 1760-1850
The bottle is carved on either side with a ring-and-mask handle, the stone is of mottled milky-emerald green tones. Together with a jadeite foliate-form snuff dish.

Bottle: 2 3/5 in. (6.9 cm.) high, tourmaline stopper; Dish: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm.) long (2)
Provenance
Bottle: The John F. Ruckman Collection, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, no. 74
The Charles V. Swain Collection, no. 178
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 4 December 2015, lot 650

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