Lot 311
311
ANOTHER PROPERTY
AN INCISED GILT-DECORATED WHITE JADE BOTTLE

Details
AN INCISED GILT-DECORATED WHITE JADE BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY

Of full-bodied spade shape, incised and gilt-decorated on one side with a butterfly above prunus rising from grassy rockwork, and on the other with a three-line poem (minute bruises)
1 7/8in. (4.8cm.) high, stopper

Lot Essay

The inscription describes ladies and dreams

For an inverted pear-shaped bottle, attributed to the Beijing Palace Workshops and dated 1787, incised and gilt with magnolia on one side and a poem on the other, see Robert W. L. Kleiner, exhibition Catalogue, Chinese Snuff Bottles, A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1994, p. 80, no. 26