PROBABLY IMPERIAL, ATTRIBUTED TO THE TIBETAN WORKSHOPS, BEIJING PALACE, 1780-1860

After becoming keen on imported Hindustan and Turkish jades after 1757, the Qianlong emperor set up his own separate workshops at the Court, known as the Tibetan workshop, to produce similar wares. This may be a mid-Qing product of that workshop. For other related bottles in the collection of Mary and George Bloch, see 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, nos. 114 and 115.

For two white jade bottles from the Tibetan workshops, the second of similar form and decoration, see H. White, Snuff Bottles from China: The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, London, 1992, pl. 8.