A CARVED WHITE AND RUSSET JADE SNUFF BOTTLE

PROBABLY IMPERIAL, 1730-1820

Details

A CARVED WHITE AND RUSSET JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL, 1730-1820
Of flattened, rounded form and raised on a tall, oval footrim, the bottle is carved through the russet skin on either side with a chilong grasping a lingzhi sprig in its mouth.
2 in. (5 cm.) high, glass stopper and metal spoon

Provenance

Fernhill Park Collection; The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, cat. no. 84, 1991.

Literature

Noëlle King O'Connor, "Water: Changing Imagery in Chinese Art," Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Baltimore, Autumn 1994, p. 7, fig. 6.
Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Baltimore, Winter 1997, front cover.

Exhibited

Taipei Gallery, New York, Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1-29 October 1993, p. 15.

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Lot Essay

This unusual bottle is probably Imperial given the subject and the ingenius use of the skin of the pebble. A similar example is illustrated by Bob C. Stevens in The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles," New York, 1980, no. 379, p. 115.

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