Peach of a Snuff Dish

Palace workshops, 1720-1780
Height: 5.54 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.74/1.64 cm
Stopper: stained quartz; gilt-silver collar

Provenance:
Robert Hall, April 2009

 

Translucent, white nephrite of pebble material with variegated, yellowish-brown inner skin; with a flat lip and concave, oval foot surrounded by a convex, oval foot rim; carved in low relief to suggest the form of a peach, with, on one main side and both narrow sides, a severed, leafy branch bearing two more peaches, the other main side with a concave depression forming an integral snuff-dish.

Alexander Whittaker