A LAPIS-LAZULI BOTTLE

1760-1840

Details

A LAPIS-LAZULI BOTTLE
1760-1840
Of tapered rectangular form with paneled sides, the dark blue stone with a profusion of gold flecks, stopper
2 3/8in. (6cm.) high

Provenance

Hilda Somers Collection, acquired in 1947.

Lot Essay

For a set of ten similarly shaped white jade bottles made for the Court, in their original box, see Chang Lin-sheng, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, p. 146, no. 116; and for a series of lapis-lazuli bottles, see op. cit., pp. 262 and 263, nos. 394-401.

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