Atomo Collection

• Jadeite
  
  
• Flattened rectangular form
  
  
• Snuff bottle with one side carved using the bright golden-brown "skin" in high relief with two fighting and confronting writhing dragons against the frosty green material. Original stopper similarly carved with a brown "skin" cloud.

Period

• 1900 - 1936

Size

• Height cm. 5.6
• Mouth cm. 0.6
• Lip cm. 1.2

Stopper

• Jadeite

Provenance

• Hoddard Sigler, Shanghai, bought on 28 Dicember 1936
• Pugh Collection no. 21
• Auction Pugh Collection - Sotheby's, New York - 01 April 2005 - Lot no. 401

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. 38, p. 43