216 A RARE CHALCEDONY SNUFF BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY
H5.9cm
EXHIBITED
The Jade - Carving Art in The Ch'ing Dynasty
National Museum of History, Taipei, 27 January to 26 February 1990
Suid-Afrikaanse Kultuurhistoriese Museum, Transvaal Museum, South Africa, 16 May to 12 August 1991
National Museum of History, Taipei, 23 May to 5 July 1992
Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Belgium, 21 October 1992 to 3 January 1993
Museum Reich der Kristalle, Germany, 4 February to 31 May 1993
Östasiatiska Museet, Sweden, 16 June to 12 September 1993
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, France, 26 October 1993 to 25 March 1994
Museum für Völkerkunde, Austria, 5 May to 10 July 1994
Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Houston Museum of Natural Science, USA, September 1997 to 1998
Universe in a Bottle: Treasures of Snuff Bottles
National Museum of History, Taipei, 29 August to 26 October 2008
LITERATURE
Il Mondo Della Giada: I Grandi Capolavori Dell'arte Cinese, Giorgio Mondadori, Milano, 1992, p. 184
The World of Jade: Great Masterpieces of Chinese Art, Crescent Books, New York, 1994, p. 184
The Jade - Carving Art in The Ch'ing Dynasty, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1996, p. 170
Universe in a Bottle: Treasures of Snuff Bottles, National Museum of History, Taipei, 2008, p. 134
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