Bottle ID: 91

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INCISED PRUNUS BRANCH

Date: 1740-1795

Height: 54 mm

Nephrite, white, superbly hollowed, of rounded ovoid form, incised on one side with a blossoming prunus branch; the reverse with a leafy branch with a flowering peony.

Possibly Imperial, attributable to the Palace Workshops

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no. 162
Chang Lin-sheng. Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 1991, p. 169, no. 172.
Moss, Hugh, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang. A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles - The Mary and George Bloch Collection, 1995, Vol. 1, 1995,  pp. 96-97, no. 36.

 

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd.

Exhibited:

Annual Convention ICSBS New York, November 2013

The Kangxi emperor became a great patron of the arts through the setting up of Imperial workshops or ateliers within the confines of the Palace at Beijing. After 1680 workshops were established of which one was devoted to jade. It was apparent that taking snuff had acquired a social cachet which required more than plain disposable container and the Imperial workshops began producing bottles in glass, enamel and jade.

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