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  • Dentritic agate

  • Compressed spherical form

  • Unusual carved snuff bottle with a concave foot. Cleverly carved utilizing pale green, grey, misty-white and brown markings with a continuous design of Xiwangmu, the West Queen Mother and Fertility Goddess, holding a flywhisk in her left hand, with two cranes flying towards her, all amidst swirling clouds, one band of which continues beneath the foot.



Period

  • 1760 - 1880



Size

  • Height cm. 5.2
  • Mouth cm. 0.5
  • Lip cm. 1.7



Stopper

  • Yellow Jade with gilt collar



Provenance

  • Hugh Moss Ltd.
  • Sotheby's, New York, 3 October 1980, lot 193
  • Galia Baylin
  • J & J Collection
  • Auction J & J Collection (Part III) - Christie's, New York - 29 March 2006 - Lot n. 35



Exhibited

  • Christie's New York, 1993
  • Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1994
  • Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, 1996-1997
  • Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997
  • Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2001 - 2002
  • Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 2002
  • National Museum of History, Taipei, 2002
  • International Asian Art Fair, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, 2003
  • Palazzina delle Arti: Museo del Sigillo (Seal Museum), La Spezia - Italy, November 2010 - January 2011Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2003
  • 41st Convention I.C.S.B.S., Dublin, October 2009



Published

  • Hugh Moss ed other - "The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection" - vol. 1 - no. 160
  • Atomo Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Foti, no. 34, p. 39

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