Lot 324
324
PROPERTY OF A WEST COAST COLLECTOR
A FINE WHITE AND RUSSET JADE BOTTLE

Details
A FINE WHITE AND RUSSET JADE BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY

Of pebble shape, delicately carved to imitate a cloth bag tied at the neck with ribbons, a flowering spray hanging to the foot, a monkey clambering on the shoulder holding a snapped branch above a wasp, stopper

Lot Essay

For another bottle in white jade, of smaller size but also carved with a monkey clambering on a ribbon-tied bag, see Christie's, New York, November 27, 1991, lot 126

See also Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, col. pl. 32, for a fruit-form vessel with ribbon-tied center fashioned in a similar style