Description
Description: Chinese clear quartz snuff bottle, very finely shaped in the form of a lobed melon wrapped by its leaves, in “all rounded”, baseless shape. The lobed leaves are shaped like ruyis.
Foot/base: This bottle has no base, it is shaped to fit well in hand and be carried in the puch.
Mark:
Dating: 18th / 19h century.
Material: Quartz.
Size: 49 mm long.
Stopper: Mottled blue/white stone stopper and bone spoon.
Provenance: Antiquarian market
References: A bottle of identical carving and size is in the Four Winds Collection, which is of a friend collector who bought it from Hugh Moss. According to Hugh Moss, there were three known bottles of this same form, obviously carved by the same workshop. Besides the one now in the Four Winds Collection, a further one is in another collection, and an inside painted one, painted by Ye Zhongsan in 1899, is published in Hugh Moss, “The Apricot Grove Studio, Part II: The Works of the Ye Family”, JICSBS, Autumn 1982, p. 25, fig. 53. It is known that Ye Zhongsan had the habit of using earlier bottles for his works.
Thus our bottle is the fourth known one, and no other examples are known at the date.
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