Chinese Jade Perfume Bottle

Flat pale bottle splashed with green, as if someone spilled moss on it.

This jade perfume bottle is from China, and dates to the 20th century. Small bottles carved in hard stone are linked to the Chinese snuff bottle tradition, in which tiny containers were shaped in many materials. Slim, rounded-rectangle bottle with a short neck and a small green stopper. The stone body is milky white and translucent, with a cloud of bright apple-green mottling through the center. The surface is smooth and polished. It is 1.5 inches wide, 0.5 deep and 2.25 high.

Simple outline, wonderfully cloudy middle.