A Carved White and Russet Jade Bottle
A Carved White and Russet Jade Bottle

1750-1790, POSSIBLY IMPERIAL PALACE WORKSHOPS

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A Carved White and Russet Jade Bottle
1750-1790, possibly Imperial Palace Workshops
Of flattened spade shape with a flaring neck, carved in shallow relief to each side with confronted archaistic key-pattern designs, stopper
26in. (6.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

For a smaller example from the Dodge Collection, see Sotheby's, New York, 17 March 1997, lot 154.

For another bottle of different shape but with similar formalization of design typical of Qianlong archaism, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong, 1995, vol. I, Jade, pp. 82-83, no. 29

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