Happily Converting Descendants

Pendant: 1650-1800
Conversion: 1800-1960
Height: 5 cm
Mouth: .5 cm
Stopper: translucent, dark green jadeite carved as a fruit; gilt-metal collar

Provenance:
Sworders Auction,  23 April 2013, lot 306
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

 

Translucent white nephrite of pebble material with some beige-brown inner skin; a pendant converted to a snuff bottle and carved in the form of a severed, leafy, vine from which one large and one small double gourd grow, the larger gourd hollowed to form the bottle, and with curling tendrils, with a bat in flight also in relief.

Enquire
Alexander Whittaker