Bottle ID: 376

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APPLE GREEN, RECTANGULAR

Date: 1780-1880

Height: 60 mm

 

Jadeite, very well hollowed, of bright variegated green colour with two irregular striated bands of color sweeping concentrically across the body, of flattened rectangular form with shoulders sloping to a neck with slightly concave mouth, and with a neatly carved footrim.

 

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no. 150
Crane Collection no. 427
Crane Collection no. 349
Moss, Hugh M. Snuff Bottles of China, 1971, pp. 66-67, no. 1.
Low, Denis S. K. Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect III, 2007, p. 98, no. 76.
Chang Lin-sheng. Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 1991, p. 152, no. 127.
Sotheby's, New York, September 14, 2010, lot 84, The Joe Grimberg Collection.

 

Provenance:

Robert Hall
Sotheby's, New York, September 15, 1998, lot 373
Neal W. and Frances R. Hunter, purchased from Lilla S. Perry, Los Angeles, CA, 1965
Lilla S. Perry

 

 

 

Published:
 

Perry, Lilla S. Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Adventures & Studies of a Collector, 1960, p. 104, no. 81

 

 

Green jadeite was introduced to the imperial court in Beijing towards the end of the eighteenth century to the delight of all. Such was the fascination for the color that it rapidly became a material favored by the Qianlong emperor and his extensive family. This example could conceivably be from that time, as its form is paralleled in white jade bottles from the eighteenth century. The National Palace Museum example listed is nephrite and both bottles fit well into the late Qianlong Period.

 

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