A CARVED WHITE JADE BOTTLE

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

细节

A CARVED WHITE JADE BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY

Of rounded shape, delicately carved in low relief with a squirrel clambering amidst grapevine on one side with some foliage extending to the reverse, the stone of attractive even tone--2 1/16in. (5.2cm.) high, stopper

拍品专文

For a very similar bottle, carved with peach, see Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, 1970, Catalogue, p. 15, pl. 36

For two other bottles see Christie's, New York, The Reif Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, October 18, 1993, lot 71; and Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, p. 30, fig. 29