Bottle ID: 632

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SAGE-GREEN, TRANSLUCENT

Date: 1736-1799

Height: 65 mm

Nephrite, of translucent sage-green tones with internal, darker green streaking, very well hollowed, of flattened pear shape with a cylindrical neck and wide mouth, with a concave, oval foot rim.

Imperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing.

 

 

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Provenance:

Hugh Moss [HK] Ltd.
Lutz Franz, Hong Kong, October 2004
Hugh Moss [HK] Ltd., December 1997

Exhibited:

China Blues, Robert Hall Gallery, Autumn 1999

Published:

China Blues CD Rom, 1999

There is a series of imperial objects made from a range of sage-green nephrite which is distinctive in color. Whenever this material appears, there are invariably courtly connections, suggesting that it came from a single boulder of nephrite, most of which would have been used by the Court. This form is a classic Imperial form from the Qianlong period onwards. There is also a series of glass bottles of this shape, including some in yellow, several of which bear Qianlong reign-marks, although there seems to be a general acceptance that the larger the bottle, the later the period to which it can be attributed.

 

 

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