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