A RUSSET-VEINED ARCHAISTIC JADE BOTTLE

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A RUSSET-VEINED ARCHAISTIC JADE BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY

Of rounded baluster shape, a band of archaistic C-scrolls on the body divided by taotie-mask fixed-ring handles at the sides, the stone with a mottled russet flecked veining, stopper

Lot Essay

For a comparable nephrite jade bottle of slightly wider proportions, carved with a simple band of ruyi-heads and bearing a Qianlong mark in seal script, from the Beijing Palace Workshops, see Snuff Bottles of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 20 Oct-3 Dec, 1978, Catalogue, fig. 39