A white jade pebble 'gourd and butterfly' snuff bottle, Qing dynasty, 18th / early 19th century | 清十八 / 十九世紀初白玉雕瓜瓞綿綿圖鼻煙壺

Auction Closed

September 22, 04:06 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A white jade pebble 'gourd and butterfly' snuff bottle

Qing dynasty, 18th / early 19th century

清十八 / 十九世紀初白玉雕瓜瓞綿綿圖鼻煙壺

of natural ovoid form, carved in high relief with a stem emerging from the top end and issuing leaves over the shoulder and body, a butterfly in lower relief fluttering near the largest leaves, the base naturalistically lobed and drawing to a central dimple, the interior well hollowed, the stone a creamy white tone, stopper (2)

Height 2⅛ in., 5.4 cm

The Abbott Collection.

Anderson Galleries, New York, 16th-17th February 1917, lot 8.

Collection of Kenyon V. Painter, Sr. (1867-1940) and Maud Wyeth Painter (1885-1971), and thence by descent.

來源

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Anderson Galleries，紐約，1917年2月16至17日，編號8

Kenyon V. Painter, Sr. (1867-1940) 及 Maud Wyeth Painter (1885-1971) 伉儷藏，此後家族傳承

For other white jade pebble snuff bottles carved in a similar manner and with a 'gourd and butterfly' or 'fruit and butterfly' motif, see one sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 7th November 2012, lot 457; another sold in the same rooms, 24th-25th November 2014, lot 1090; and a third worked in higher relief and also sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 28th-29th November 2019, lot 502. See also a white and russet jade pebble 'cicada' snuff bottle carved in a very similar manner to the present snuff bottle, in the Mary and George Bloch Collection, published 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, 1995, no. 59.

A white jade pebble 'gourd and butterfly' snuff bottle, Qing dynasty, 18th / early 19th century | 清十八 / 十九世紀初 白玉雕瓜瓞綿綿圖鼻煙壺

A white jade pebble 'gourd and butterfly' snuff bottle, Qing dynasty, 18th / early 19th century | 清十八 / 十九世紀初白玉雕瓜瓞綿綿圖鼻煙壺