Lot 267: A VERY RARE GREEN JADEITE BOTTLE 1770-1840

of flattened ovoid form, the well hollowed stone of creamy apple green color Provenance Hamilton Coll. no. 290 Deng Xiao Pin Collection, Canada Vanessa Holden, Singapore This is one of a rare group of distinctive jadeite bottles all apparently from the same boulder, or source of stone. Compare a rare version with carved decoration in the Bloch Collection, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles No 1, Jade, no. 187, and a plain bottle in the J&J Collection in Moss, Graham, Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, vol. I, p.127, pl. 64.