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A JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE A DARK-GREEN-SPINACH NEPHRITE SNUFF BOTTLE
1780-1850 1820-1900
Of shield shape with a waisted neck, set on a flat base, undecorated, Of compressed spherical form, with raised circular panels on each
the gray-green stone with bright apple-green inclusions throughout; main face and vertical oval panels on the narrow sides; stopper.
stopper. 2 1/8in (5.4cm) high
2 5/8in (6.7cm) high
$2,200 - 2,800
$1,800 - 2,500
1820-1900 碧玉鼻煙壺
1780-1850 素面翡翠鼻煙壺
Provenance:
Provenance: Bessie K. Shierson
Montclair Museum Collection, New Jersey Sotheby’s, New York, The Bessie K. Shierson Collection, 25 February
Sotheby’s, New York, The Montclair Art Museum, 22 September 1995, 1982, lot 205 Senator Hugh Doggett Scott
lot 100 Litchfield Auction Gallery, The Senator Hugh Doggett Scott Collection,
4 February 1984, lot 58
Literature:
Schuyler V. R. Cammann, Miniature Art from Old China, Chinese Snuff For a dark chloromelanite jadeite bottle of identical profile, see Michael
Bottles from The Montclair Museum Collection, Montclair, NJ, 1982, C. Hughes, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Chinese Snuff Bottles,
col. pl. no. 210 Baltimore, 2009, pp.78-79, no. 61, where the author discusses the
ICSBS Journal, Spring 2001, p. 10, fig. 10 shape as it relates to materials other than jade, in particular to various
decorated and un-decorated glass bottles.

For an Imperial example in agate, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham
and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and
George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2 Part 2, Quartz, pp.476-477, no. 357,
for a bottle dated to 1797 and bearing a hall mark, Hanyuan Zhai
(Studio of Magnanimity).

Another two, one in quartz, the other in nephrite are illustrated by Hugh
M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of the Rt. Hon. The
Marquess of Exeter, K.C.M.G., London, 1974, pp. 124-125, no. Q.38
and p. 138, no. J.6, respectively.
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