Bottle ID: 797

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TURQUOISE, SHIELD SHAPE, WITH BLACK MATRIX

Date: 1730-1800

Height: 47 mm

A turquoise matrix snuff bottle, of small flattened shield shape with a waisted neck and straightened mouth rim, tapering to a flat oval base, the variegated green and blue-green tones with dramatic, irregular dark veining of the matrix. 
Possibly imperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection, no. 282
Hall, Robert. Chinese Snuff Bottles II, 1989, p. 49, no. 34
Kleiner, Robert W.L., Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of John Ault, 1990, p. 77, no. 131

Provenance:

Christie’s New York, March 24, 2022, Lot 821 
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York 
Sotheby’s New York, March 15, 1984, lot 150 
The Mei Ling Collection, (Dr. Bons, The Netherlands) 
Sotheby’s New York, March 26, 1982, lot 176 
Bob C. Stevens Collection, no. 603

Published:

Bob C. Stevens, The Collectors’ Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, no. 603, Catalogue of An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Bob C. Stevens Collection, 1978, no. 246 
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World – The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, p. 364, no. 161

Exhibited:

Tokyo, Mikimoto Hall, An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Bob C. Stevens Collection, October 22-31, 1978

 

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