Atomo Collection

• Amygdaloidal Basalt
  
  
• Rounded rectangular
  
  
• Snuff Bottle with recessed foot. Natural epidote and calcite inclusions forming attractive irregular patterns in the dark stone. Bottles made from this material are usually left undecorated. The present example is extremely well carved and finished, with good hollowing and perfect formal integrity.

Period

• 1760 - 1900

Size

• Height cm. 6.2
• Mouth cm. 0.6
• Lip cm. 1.8

Stopper

• Coral

Provenance

• Ko Collection (Tianjin, 1937)
• Christie's, Londra, 9 October 1974, lot 148
• Bob C. Stevens
• Sotheby's, New York, 26 March 1982, lot 135
• Hugh M. Moss Ltd
• J & J Collection
• Auction J & J Collection - Cristie's, New York - 22 March 2007 - Lot n. 45

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
• Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2003
• 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

• Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, no. 658
• Moss, Graham, Tsang. The Art of Chinese Snuff Bottle. The J & J Collection, Vol. I, no. 75
• Atomo Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Foti, no. 39, p. 44