A WHITE GLASS AND SPINACH-GREEN JADE 'EGGPLANT' SNUFF BOTTLE PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG / JIAQING PERIOD

with a flat lip and flat foot, carved in the form of an eggplant, the translucent white glass body of the fruit embellished with a spinach-green jade calyx; the original spinach-green jade stopper carved as a stalk

Robert Hall, London, 1985.

Chinese Snuff Bottles I, Robert Hall, London, 1987, cat. no. 86.

Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, The British Museum, London, 1995, cat. no. 149.

Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1997.

Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 7, Hong Kong, 2009, no. 1672.

The snuff bottle is in very good condition.
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The present bottle is the only known glass example, copying the more commonly-found white and green jade eggplant-form snuff bottles.