Description
Description: Chinese small snuff bottle carved out from a flawless pure white nephrite jade, of baluster form, decorated with lotus petals. A Greek motif, a twisted cord band and a band of circles are decorating the neck, best seen in the enlarged penultimate picture. It is a bottle of very high quality. Perfect hollowing. 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: 52 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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