LOT 42 AN 'EGGPLANT' JADE SNUFF BOTTLE Imperial, attributed...
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AN 'EGGPLANT' JADE SNUFF BOTTLEImperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops, 1750-1800 The even white stone carved in the form of a ripe eggplant with a spinach-green jade calyx, very well-hollowed; with a spinach-green stopper resembling the stalk of the vegetable. 2 1/2in (6.2cm) long 1750-1820 玉質茄子形鼻煙壺一件 御製 或為宮廷作坊製 Provenance: Jin Hing & Co., Los Angeles, CA., October 22, 2009 Joan and Ted Dorf Collection, no. 161 Exhibited: The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD., September 30 – December 9, 2018 This bottle is one of a group of bottles made in sets of either ten or twenty for the imperial court. The National Palace Museum in Taipei has one suchplete set in its collection. Individual bottles in private hands are more scarce but a similar example is illustrated in Moss, Graham and Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles , the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 1, Jade , 1998, no. 70.
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