Bottle ID: 308

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EMERALD SNOW

Date: 1800-1850

Height: 49 mm

Jadeite, very well hollowed, of translucent, milky emerald-green color with tendrils of irregular veining,  of ovoid form with rounded shoulders sloping to a neck with small mouth, and with a slightly concave footrim.

Similar Examples:

Moss, Hugh, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang. The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle - The J & J Collection, 1993, Vol. I, p. 127, no. 64.
Moss, Hugh M. Snuff Bottles of China, 1971, pp. 66-67, no. 4.
Moss, Hugh, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang. A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles - The Mary and George Bloch Collection, 1995, Vol. 1, pp. 472-473, no. 187.

Provenance:

Hugh Moss [HK] Ltd.
Sotheby's, Hong Kong, October 30, 1990, lot 124
The Kaynes-Klitz Collection

This is the fifth recorded bottle from this distinctive opaque stone. Presumably a workshop acquired a single boulder of this unique color of jadeite and fashioned it into a small number of snuff bottles. This is one of the most well carved of the known bottles and is unusually well hollowed for a nineteenth century jadeite bottle. No other carvings or works of art appear to have been produced from this stone, leaving us with the assumption that the boulder, or inclusion in the rock formation, must have been of limited size.

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