A LAVENDER JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE

very well hollowed, of rectangular form and section resting on a neatly finished footrim, below a slightly flared neck, each face and side carved with a raised panel finished with beveled edges, the stone of an intense lavender color suffused with patches of iridescent white

Robert Kleiner.

There is one tiny shallow chip to the exterior of the mouth rim. The bottle is in otherwise good condition.
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The design of the present bottle is similar to a white jade example in The White Wings Collection, which is inscribed on each face and includes a cyclical date that most likely corresponds to 1814. See Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles: The White Wings Collection, Hong Kong, 1997, p. 55, pl. 29.