Nephrite pebble snuff bottle, mottled brown and mutton fat, carved as an eggplant with leaves and a beetle. This snuff bottle could also be worn as a pendant.

Reverse: Nephrite pebble snuff bottle, mottled brown and mutton fat, carved as an eggplant with leaves and a beetle. This snuff bottle could also be worn as a pendant.

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Eggplant Snuff Bottle & Pendant

 

Carved nephrite pebble snuff bottle

B60 / P39

Nephrite, mottled brown and mutton fat, carved realistically in the form of a vegetable with leaves and a beetle, the body with a pierced area for suspending the bottle from the belt, to one end is a coral twig stopper.

Chinese, 1700 - 1780
Stopper: coral twig
Provenance: Christies, London, 1980
Published: Included on the Chinese pendant exhibition poster.

A snuff bottle which doubles as a pendant is unusual, and it is most likely to have been converted from a pendant. This is an attractive and fine carving from the workshops that would have also been making snuff bottles.

 

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