1760-1860

細節

**A FINE EMERALD-GREEN-SPLASHED JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE
1760-1860
Of compressed ovoid form with slightly concave lip and flat foot, the milky emerald-green stone mottled with swirling brighter-green inclusions, tourmaline stopper with pearl finial
1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm.) high

來源

Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 17 November 1973, lot 343
Hugh M. Moss Ltd. (London 1980)

出版

Arts of Asia, November-December 1973, p. 10
100 Selected Chinese Snuff Bottles from the J & J Collection, no. 9 J & J poster
JICSBS, Autumn 1989, front cover
Moss et. al., The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, vol. 1, no. 64
Arts of Asia, November-December 1998, p. 80, fig. 18

展覽

Christie's, London, October 1987
Christie's, New York, 1993
Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1994
Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, 1996-1997
Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997
Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2002
Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 2002
National Museum of History, Taipei, 2002
International Asian Art Fair, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, 2003
Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2003

注意事項

Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing materials from endangered species, including but not limited to coral, ivory and tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country.

拍品專文

Jadeite comes from a remote part of Burma, and first became a readily available material probably between 1784 and 1800, when relations between Burma and China improved with the opening up of regular trade. It is likely that bottles such as this example represent the earliest popular use of jadeite in China. With the Imperially inspired snuff-bottle craze at its height during the late eighteenth century, there can be no question that a striking new material arriving on the scene would promptly be carved into bottles. Porcelain bottles made to imitate jadeite during the Daoguang period attest to its well-established popularity; cf. the example from the J & J Collection illustrated by Moss et. al., The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, no. 251.

The material here is quite extraordinary and has a distinctive, rather milky emerald-green color and textural pattern. There is a small group of bottles of this distinctive stone, all presumably from a single boulder, which are discussed by Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, vol. 1, Jade, no. 187. Another is in H. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, p. 67, no. 4.

The pleasantly soft polish of this bottle is an appealing change from the glassy glitter generally preferred by the jadeite carver.