AN UNUSUAL JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE

Lot 840
24.03.2022 12:00UTC -05:00
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ID 718470
Lot 840 | AN UNUSUAL JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE
Estimate value
$ 7 000 – 9 000
AN UNUSUAL JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1850

The bottle is of ovoid form and the beige stone is attractively mottled with green and mauve patches.

2 1⁄8 in. (5.4 cm.), pink tourmaline stopper







Provenance

Ko Family Collection.

The Ko Family Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Part IV; Christie's New York, 10 June 1974, lot 107.

Bob C. Stevens Collection.

Fine and Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Bob C. Stevens, Part I; Sotheby’s Honolulu, 7 November 1981, lot 118.

Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.





Literature

R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, p. 369, no. 166.





Exhibited

Tokyo, Mikimoto Hall, An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles From The Bob C. Stevens Collection, 22-31 October 1978, p. 73, color pl. 192.
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