A JADEITE ‘PHOENIX AND BAMBOO’ SNUFF BOTTLE
A JADEITE ‘PHOENIX AND BAMBOO’ SNUFF BOTTLE

PROBABLY IMPERIAL, ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE PALACE WORKSHOPS, QING DYNASTY, 1770-1840

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A JADEITE ‘PHOENIX AND BAMBOO’ SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL, ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE PALACE WORKSHOPS, QING DYNASTY, 1770-1840
The bottle is carved with a phoenix perched beside a bamboo stem, and a lingzhi stemming from the bottom. The stone ranges from emerald-green to icy greenish-white tones. Together with a jadeite snuff dish.

Bottle: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) high, jadeite stopper; Dish: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm.) long (2)
Provenance
Bottle: Lilla S. Perry, Los Angeles, before 1965
Pat Miller, Hawaii, February 2008
Robert Kleiner, March 2008
Literature
Bob C. Stevens, The Collectors Book of Snuff Bottles, New York and Tokyo, 1976, no. 456
Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society (JICSBS), 46/1 (Spring 2014),14, fig. 65

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