S 28 A Jadeite Snuff Bottle

十九至二十世紀 翠玉鼻煙壺

19th-20th century

The bottle is of a flattened apple form and carved in high relief with a boy holding a large peach growing from a pierced, twisted branch; the stone is cloudy ice-green, with a brilliant apple-green area cleverly used to form the fruit, with some small russet inclusions.
Jadeite stopper.

Height: 5.5 cm

Provenance: Formerly in a Dutch private collection
                      Feng-Chun Ma, Amsterdam

Published in Feng-Chun Ma, A Thousand Years of Hundred Boys in Chinese Art, 10th–20th Century (Hong Kong: CA Book Publishing, 2024), p. 211.

S 28 十九至二十世紀 翠玉鼻煙壺

扁瓶式壺身，高浮雕一童子抱桃，桃枝鏤空交錯。器呈冰綠色澤，玉色深潤處巧雕綠桃。帶翠玉蓋。

高5.5公分
來源：原荷蘭私人收藏
          Feng-Chun Ma, Amsterdam

出版：馬鳳春《千年百子─十至二十世紀中國藝術中的嬰戲圖》(香港：CA Book Publishing, 2024)，頁211。