A CARVED WHITE JADE BOTTLE

Details

A CARVED WHITE JADE BOTTLE
1780-1820

Of rounded spade shape, carved with a continuous scene of two phoenix-like long-tailed birds standing on the branches of a flowering prunus tree, one bird with a sprig in its beak, the stone of even white tone, stopper

Provenance

Count Kurt Blucher von Wahlstatt Collection, Geneva

Literature

Hugh M. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China,, pp. 70-71, illustrated pl. 71, no. 23

Lot Essay

For a white jade bottle carved with gourds rather than birds amidst prunus, but with a similar overall integrity and vigor of design, see Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, p. 20, fig. 29