Details
A Yellow Jade Baluster Bottle
1750-1790
Of flattened octagonal baluster shape, with high shoulders tapering to a narrow, slightly flaring base, the surface faceted with subtle brown highlights in the upper part of the stone, stopper
2.11/16in. (6.9cm.) high
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PROVENANCE: George Fischer Collection, 1930's
Guy Mayer Collection, 1952

Lot Essay

For another yellow jade bottle of slightly less pronounced meiping shape, 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. 194-195, no. 78.

For a white and russet pebble bottle of nearly identical profile, including recessed foot, though quite different in overall design, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, vol. I, p. 101, no. 43

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