AN EXCEPTIONAL JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

of flattened rectangular form, the stone of a brilliant apple-green colour

Collection of John Fell Ruckman (1901-1965), Pennsylvania.
Collection of Charles V. Swain, thence by descent.

The snuff bottle is in overall very good condition.
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By gem standards, the colour of the stone here is pale but unusually even and very attractive. It has an extraordinary magical quality practically never found in the material. A jadeite snuff bottle of similar stone quality, but of globular form, from the Mary and George Bloch collection, was sold in these rooms, 26th May 2014, lot 1063.