AN UNUSUAL GRAY AND BLACK JADE BOTTLE

1750-1820

Details

AN UNUSUAL GRAY AND BLACK JADE BOTTLE
1750-1820
Of flattened rounded rectangular shape, carved in high relief on one side using the white skin to depict a scaly dragon amidst waves and clouds, and incised to the other side with rockwork issuing lingzhi, the stone of attractive black tone with silvery flecks to the matrix, stopper
2.13/16in. (7.1cm.) high

Provenance

Mr. W.G. Wrigley
By repute, Stanley Charles Nott
Ashkenazi & Co., San Francisco, 1984

Literature

Stanley Charles Nott, Chinese Jade Throughout The Ages, London, 1937, p. 143, col. pl. CXXVI, no. 4
Rachelle R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 42-43, no. 10

Lot Essay

Stanley Charles Nott, op. cit., p. 14, dates the bottle to the reign of the Emperor Kangxi (1662-1722).

For another black jade bottle carved with a dragon from a white inclusion, formerly in the Frank Marcus Collection, see Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles: No.5, Middlesex, 1969, p. 23, fig. 1.

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