Lot Essay
For an almost identical example of an eggplant snuff bottle see Masterworks of Chinese Jade in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, pl. 26
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
TWO SNUFF BOTTLES
Details
TWO SNUFF BOTTLES
19TH CENTURY
Comprising a white jade and green glass bottle formed as an eggplant issuing from an applied mottled green glass calyx and with green glass stalk-form stopper; and a plainly carved flattened baluster agate bottle, well polished and of even, semi-translucent, pale grayish-white tone with faint cloud-like markings, bluish-green glass stopper (2)
19TH CENTURY
Comprising a white jade and green glass bottle formed as an eggplant issuing from an applied mottled green glass calyx and with green glass stalk-form stopper; and a plainly carved flattened baluster agate bottle, well polished and of even, semi-translucent, pale grayish-white tone with faint cloud-like markings, bluish-green glass stopper (2)