Lot 197
197
A FINE WHITE JADE BOTTLE

Details
A FINE WHITE JADE BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY

Of tapering rectangular shape, the edges canted to form plain panels on each side, the narrow sides delicately carved with low-relief lion-mask fixed-ring handles, the shoulders flattened and the neck cylindrical--2¼in. (5.7cm.) high, stopper, purse

Lot Essay

For two similar bottles see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, p. 173, nos. 183 and 185; and for another see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Arthur Gadsby, May 2, 1991, lot 209