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A BRILLIANT MULTI-COLOR JASPER SNUFF BOTTLE For a stone so obviously attractive, it is curious that so few examples
1820-1880 exist, but this may simply be due to the paucity of the material. For
Of rounded, slightly globular, rectangular shape with cylindrical neck, example, only one jasper bottle is published by Hugh Moss, Victor
the stone of primarily bright mustard-yellow color with attractive Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The
inclusions of red, orange and green, on an oval foot; stopper. Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2 Part 1, Quartz, pp.118-
1 3/4in (4.5cm) high 120, no. 224. That example is of slender tear-drop shape with convex
oval foot and deeply hollowed to the interior and is considered by the
$2,500 - 3,500 authors to possibly be an Imperial eighteenth century product. Ours,
whilst less well hollowed, and of a more regular rectangular shape, is
1820-1880 素面碧石鼻煙壺 better placed as a product of the nineteenth century. However, the
stone is a magnificent mix of rich olive greens and deep mustard-
Provenance: yellows, with even a dash of red. The random markings can be read as
Alex S. Cussons multiple possible representations.
Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, The Alex S. Cussons Collection, 3 May 1995,
lot 401

Literature:
Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Silica and Quartz Group,
London, 1971, p. 18, fig. 34

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 51

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