Lot 502
  • 502

A CARVED WHITE AND RUSSET JADE 'GOURDS' SNUFF BOTTLE QING DYNASTY, 18TH – 19TH CENTURY |

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 HKD
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Description

  • 6.3 cm, 2 1/2  in. 

Provenance

Y.F. Yang, Hong Kong, 15th January 1972 (HK$3,600).

Catalogue Note

The subject matter of gourds was popular at the Imperial court and appears on a wide range of imperial enamels on glass, metal, and porcelain. Another white jade snuff bottle decorated with gourds, originally conceived as a bottle and not a later conversion, was illustrated in Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 1, Hong Kong, 2002, no. 34, and  sold in these rooms, 26th May 2014, lot 1026.