Nephrite Snuff Bottle

Name/Title

Nephrite Snuff Bottle

Description

The front cameo is decorated with an arhat carrying fruit while walking through a landscape carved in brown "skin" relief. The shoulders feature mask and ring handles, and the stopper is made of matching jade. Master of the Rocks school. -- Stone snuff bottle. Campbell inventory number 38, 67mm h x 42mm w, waxy green and brown soapstone bottle of flattened rectangular form. The front cameo decorated with a lohan carrying fruit walking through a landscape in brown "skin" relief, the shoulders A nephrite snuff bottle 軟玉鼻煙壺 , well-hollowed, of ovoid form, of grayish-white tones with a brown skin, carved within a panel on one side with a figure under a pine tree in a mountainous landscape, the reverse left plain, the sides with mock mask and ring handles. 1800-1850

Acquisition

Accession

T471

Source or Donor

Joan S. Campbell, Joan S. Campbell Trust

Made/Created

Artist

Unknown

Time Period

Qing Dynasty

Notes

Date: 19th c

Lexicon

Search Terms

snuff, bottle

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Snuff Bottle

Dimensions

Height

2-5/8 in

Width

1-11/16 in

Depth

1 in

Material

Stone, Jade, Nephrite