Bottle ID: 810

< Previous page

JADEITE, DECAGONAL, RADIATING FLOWER-HEAD

Date: 1780-1820

Height: 62 mm

A jadeite snuff bottle, of decagonal form with a cylindrical neck and with a neatly carved flat foot, well-hollowed, of blue tone, carved on each main side with a flower-head of radiating petals.
Probably imperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops 

Provenance:

Bonhams New York, September 19, 2022, lot 43
Joan and Ted Dorf Collection, no. 45
Sotheby's, London, July 2, 1984, lot 276
 

Published:

JICSBS, Winter 2018, Clare Chu. A Myriad of Treasures: Snuff Bottles from Mid-Atlantic Collectors, p. 44, fig. 21

Exhibited:

The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD., September 30 – December 9, 2018
 

 

< Back to full list