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A RARE AND FINELY CARVED BLACK AND WHITE JADE SNUFF
BOTTLE
SUZHOU SCHOOL, 1740-1850 Holden discusses the beloved subject matter depicted on this bottle
The bottle is masterfully carved utilizing the markings in the stone with in her book, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R.
a continuos scene depicting a bearded sage with an attendant traversing Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, p. 205,
a rocky pass beneath a pine tree, with another sage and a child crouching where she identifies the scholar, depicted on this bottle, as "Mi Fu
amidst rocky boulders and watching the geese in the pond below, as (1051-1107), the Northern Song poet, calligrapher, and painter. He
a monkey peers from an opening in the rocks. Multiple inscriptions was well-known for his hobby of collecting strange looking rocks.
are carved in the craggy rock faces, including a poetic couplet about According to legend, he would put on his formal attire and bow to his
the seasons and mountains, a line about geese, and a further one-line favorite piece, a Taihu rock, with reverence, addressing it as his elder
inscription reading Nangong bai shi (Nangong bowing to a rock). brother.”
2¬ in. (6.7 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
A very close example to the present bottle, formerly in the collection
$80,000-120,000
of Lilla S. Perry (Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Adventures and Studies of
PROVENANCE: a Collector, p. 104, nos. 85 and 87), is illustrated in Moss, Graham,
Property from a Private American Collection; Christie's New York, 27 Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J&J Collection, Volume I,
November 1991, lot 147. pp. 69-70, no. 24. Three more black and white jade bottles from the
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York. same school are illustrated by R. Kleiner, Treasures from the Sanctum
of Enlightened Respect: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Denis
LITERATURE:
Low, nos. 42-44. A small black and white example from the Alice B.
Arts of Asia, March-April 1992, p. 138, no. 147.
McReynolds Collection is illustrated in B. Stevens, The Collector's Book
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R.
of Snuff Bottles, no. 44.
Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 204-205,
no. 86.

1740-1850年 蘇作黑白玉雕「南宮拜石」圖鼻煙壺
來源:
美國私人珍藏；紐約佳士得, 1991年11月27日, 拍品編號147
何瑞秋珍藏, 紐約

出版:
《亞洲藝術》, 1992年3月至4月, 頁138, 編號147
何瑞秋, 《Rivers and Mountains Far from the World - The Rachelle R.
Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary》, 紐約, 1994年, 頁204-205,
編號86

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