A WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE

well hollowed, of vase shape with a waisted neck, the integral stand carved as a duck, the vase decorated with animal masks suspending mock-ring handles, each face incised with chrysanthemum sprays, the stone of an even white tone with a faint pale gray inclusion

Victor Topper Collection.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3rd May 1995, lot 551.

Vanessa F. Holden, 'The Joe Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles', Oriental Art, 2002, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 65-72, fig. 17.

In overall excellent condition.
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The present bottle is similar to a white jade example, also attributed as possibly Imperial, sold in our London rooms, 13th October 1987, lot 133, and again at Christie's New York, 30th March 2005, lot 40. The comparable bottle, now in The J & J Collection, is described by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang in The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle: The J & J Collection, New York, 1993, Volume I, pp. 50-51, no. 12, as being 'from the same workshop' as the present example.