Posted 8 years ago
cshapiro
(177 items)
I love the watery look of this jade. This is a lovely almost translucent celedon green jade with a chi dragon carved on each side.
On one side the dragons head is facing up, and on the other it's facing down.
It is very well hollowed.
This is a bottle that you really need to see in person because the pictures do not do it justice!
On the bottom it had an auction sticker dated 10-14-84 #1 - I am going to try to see if I can find which auction that was.
Hi cshapiro, you have an amazing collection of snuff bottles, all very beautiful! Do you know the age of any of them?
Hello pops52 - I do have some idea of the age of most of the bottles. But my snuff bottle collector friends think it's wise to not make claims that we can't 100% back up. So like on this bottle for example, even though it bears all the marks of being made in the Qianlong reign, it could have also been copied more recently. So I try to stay away from saying how old the bottles are. Thank you for commenting and glad you are enjoying them!