AN UNUSUAL CARVED JASPER AND HAIR CRYSTAL 'EGGPLANT' BOTTLE

1760-1850

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AN UNUSUAL CARVED JASPER AND HAIR CRYSTAL 'EGGPLANT' BOTTLE
1760-1850
Of eggplant form, topped with a carved green jasper leaf collar, the tea-colored crystal body with dense tourmaline inclusions settling near the base, stopper
2 5/8in. (6.5cm.) high

來源

Hilda Somers Collection, acquired prior to 1952.

拍品專文

This is an extremely rare example of a group better known in nephrite discussed by H. Moss, V. Graham, K.B. Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong, 1995, vol. 1, Jade, no. 70.

For two sets of ten white jade bottles of eggplant form, in their original boxes, see Chang Lin-sheng, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, p. 142, no. 112 and p. 145, no. 115.