Bottle ID: 803

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IMPERIAL, BLOSSOMING PRUNUS

Date: 1750-1800

Height: 56 mm

A nephrite snuff bottle, very well hollowed, of flattened shield shape,  with rounded shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck with a slightly everted straightened mouth and with a neatly carved concave oval foot, the white stone utilizing opaque mottling in the incising, one main side with a branch of blossoming prunus issuing from rockwork, continuing onto the reverse. 
Imperial, attributed 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. 170, no. 175

Provenance:

Clare Chu Asian Art LLC
​​​​​​​A private collection, Chicago, IL.

 

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