Atomo Collection

• Agate
  
  
• Jujube form
  
  
• Opaque, variegated orange-beige and translucent variegated honey-brown agate; well hollowed with a flattened oval foot and carved in the form of a jujube; the surface carved in relief using the orange-beige colours in the stone as a cameo with three mushrooms (?), two peanut shells, a lotus seed and a flower head.
  Probably Suzhou.

Period

• 1750 - 1850

Size

• Height cm. 5.8
• Mouth cm. 0.65

Stopper

• Pink Coral

Provenance

• Oriental Arts, Taipei, August 2002
• J & J Collection
• Christie's New York, 22 March 2007, lot. 85
• Hugh Moss

Exhibited

• 41st Convention I.C.S.B.S., Dublin, October 2009
• Palazzina delle Arti: Museo del Sigillo (Seal Museum), La Spezia - Italy, November 2010 - January 2011

Published

• Atomo Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Foti, no. 37, p. 42
• Journal ICSBS - Autumn 2010 - Vol XLII number 2 - P. 29 - Fig. 4

Comparison

• "Snuff Bottles - The Complete Collection of Treasures of The Palace Museum", Hong Kong, 2003 p. 165, no. 255