Lot 237
237
SNUFF BOTTLES
A FINE YELLOW JADE BOTTLE

Details
A FINE YELLOW JADE BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY

Of baluster shape, well hollowed with a slightly flaring neck and carved with three simple loop handles evenly spaced around the shoulder, the stone of pale tone, stopper
2in. (5cm.) high, wood stand

Lot Essay

A similar bottle without the loop handles at the shoulder sold in these rooms, The Reif Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, October 18, 1969, lot 69

For another bottle of similar shape, but lightly carved with a strapwork design and bearing a Qianlong four-character mark, see Robert W. Kleiner, Catalogue for the exhibition, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 27, fig. 24