A JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE

superbly hollowed, of flattened spade shape with a flat oval base, below a cylindrical neck carved with a concave mouth, the vivid apple-green stone suffused with flecks of emerald, russet and white inclusions

Belle Carpenter.
Robert Hall.

Robert Hall, Summer Exhibition, 6th-22nd June 2001, cat.no. 4.

The walls of this bottle are extremely thin and the interior is superbly hollowed. In good overall condition with one tiny fleck-like nibble on the exterior mouth rim.
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This bottle is exceptional among jadeite bottles for its extremely thin walls, impressively hollowed interior and yet intense color. It would have required tremendous skill on the part of the carver to achieve such thinness without damaging the walls of the bottle. A comparable jadeite bottle, formerly in the Frederick Von Schleinitz Collection, was sold in these rooms, 17th March 1997, lot 299.