AN UNUSUAL CELADON JADE BOTTLE

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AN UNUSUAL CELADON JADE BOTTLE
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Of rounded shape, carved around the body with four bands of interlocking S-shaped motifs below a band of key-pattern encircling the cylindrical neck, the stone with some russet inclusions, stopper

Lot Essay

For an identical bottle see Sotheby's, New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, March 15, 1984, lot 186. For another similar bottle of more honey tone see Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, pp. 114-115, no. 370, where the decoration is called a silkworm pattern. See, also, Sotheby's, Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Arthur Gadsby Collection, November 2, 1978, lot 2, for a more slender example where the decoration is called a "dot and grain" pattern