Description
Description: Chinese small snuff bottle carved out from a flawless pure white nephrite jade, shaped as double gourd and decorated with lotus petals. It is a bottle of very high quality. The perfect hollowing is matching the outer shape. Quality of the material (see the last picture) and of the working are pointing toward a product of the Imperial workshops.
Foot/base: Flat protruding foot, flat base, and concave mouth.
Mark:
Dating: 18th Century, Imperial workshop.
Material: White nephrite jade
Size: 51.7 mm high
Stopper: Green jade stopper with black collar and bone spoon.
Provenance: Ex Sergia Iessi collection. About this collector, see Provenance of the hornbill bottle O35.
References: We have not found a similar one.
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