Bottle ID: 285

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LILAC LAVENDER, OVAL

Date: 1800-1900

Height: 59 mm

 

Jadeite, well hollowed, of bright lavender color, of elongated oval form with a slightly concave oval panel on each main side, with rounded shoulders sloping to a concave mouth and with a concave oval foot.

 

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no.s 728 and 748
Stevens, Bob C. The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, 1976, p. 282, no. 1010.
Moss, Hugh, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang. A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles - The Mary and George Bloch Collection, 1995, Vol. 1, pp. 460-461, no. 182.
Kleiner, Robert. Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect. Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection Denis Low, 1999, p. 71, no. 58.
Sotheby's, New York, September 14, 2010, lot 165, The Joe Grimberg Collection.

 

Provenance:

Hugh Moss [HK] Ltd.
Robert Kleiner
Christie's, Hong Kong, May 2, 1995, lot 1347
Dinah O'Brien
Hugh Moss [HK] Ltd.
Cyril Green
Sydney L. Moss Ltd.

 

 

Published:
 

Moss, Hugh M [ed.] Chinese Snuff-Bottles: 2, p. 24, plate Y

 

 

 

No records have come to light as yet dating the first import of lavender jadeite into China. Jadeite, from Burma, was known to the Chinese from the late Ming dynasty but did not become a valued material until the last quarter of the Qianlong reign, when it became accepted as a highly valued alternative form of jade. There are one or two blue jadeite examples, which because of their extreme hollowing are very pale in color, and it may be that generally lavender jade lost its distinctive color when finely hollowed, rendering it rather pointless as a combination of technique and material. It is likely that the material became popular, or was first mined, in the first half of the nineteenth century. This example is one of the half-dozen known bottles of the material which are better made examples, where good hollowing is combined with formal integrity and an even natural color.

 

 

 

 

 

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