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A SUZHOU RUSSET, GREY AND BLACK JADE BOTTLE The scene represents the Yu Qiao Geng Du or ‘Four Noble
1800-1850, raised inscription reading yu qiao geng du, Possibly Professions or Occupations’, the fisherman, farmer, woodcutter, and
School of Zhiting scholar. It is a popular decorative theme on snuff bottles in a variety
Of columnar rectangular shape, carved in low relief from a russet of media. According to Confucian principles when all four professions
and beige inclusion or skin with a scene of a bearded robed scholar are in harmony the country is sustained. The farmer, fisherman and
standing alongside a pine and pierced rockwork on one of the four woodcutter provide sustenance and fire and the scholar provides
sides and the remaining three sides with a continuous scene of a philosophic vigor.
farmer carrying faggots, a boy atop a buffalo and a fisherman landing
his catch below a cloud formation with the four-character inscription, For an example of the subject in a blue and white snuff bottle, see
the base cut with a shallow oval foot. 1 15/16in (4.9cm) high, Michael C. Hughes, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Chinese
stopper, box Snuff Bottles, Baltimore, 2009, pp.270-271, no. 208.
$3,500 - 4,500

大約 1800-1850 或爲芝亭派 白玉蘇作玉雕《漁樵耕讀》鼻烟壺

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