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A CARVED PALE RUSSET AND WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
SUZHOU SCHOOL, 1750-1820 The most successful jade bottles from Suzhou created in the late 18th-
The bottle is finely carved on one side with a monkey seated on the edge early 19th century are those which exploit the strong contrasting tones
of a rocky cave beneath a pine branch and picking a cluster of lingzhi. The in the stone. These contrasts are used to create decorative scenes on
reverse is framed by rocks and carved with a relief inscription reading, snuff bottles. This can be seen in lot 804 in the current sale, where the
cai zhi tu (picture of picking the herb of immortality), followed by a seal, carver used the deep russet tones of the stone to highlight the figure's
shuang shan (twin hills). robe and the overhanging branches. The russet mottling is much more
2Ω in. (5.7 cm.) high, malachite stopper subtle on the current example and in turn relies on the masterful
carving to enhance the scene. Another bottle from this group was
$20,000-30,000 sold in Snuff Bottles from the Mary & George Bloch Collection: Part IX,
PROVENANCE: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 24 November 2014, lot 78.
Arthur Loveless Collection.
Bob C. Stevens Collection, no. 390. 1750-1820年 蘇作褐白玉雕「採芝圖」鼻煙壺
Sotheby's New York, 26 March 1982, lot 146.
The Mei Ling Collection; Sotheby's New York, 15 March 1984, lot 177. 來源:
Arthur Loveless珍藏
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
Bob C. Stevens珍藏, 編號390
EXHIBITED: 紐約蘇富比, 1982年3月26日, 拍品編號146
Tokyo, Mikimoto Hall, An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles From The Mei Ling珍藏, 紐約蘇富比, 1984年3月15日, 拍品編號177
何瑞秋珍藏, 紐約
Bob C. Stevens Collection, 22-31 October 1978, cat. no. 212.
展覽:
LITERATURE:
東京御木本會館, 「Bob C. Stevens珍藏中國鼻煙壺」, 1978年10月22至31日,
B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, no. 390.
圖錄編號212.
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R.
Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 156-157, 出版:
B. Stevens, 《鼻煙壺收藏指南》, 紐約, 1976年, 編號390
no. 65.
何瑞秋, 《Rivers and Mountains Far from the World - The Rachelle R.
Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary》, 紐約, 1994年, 頁156-157, 編
號65

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