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A GREEN-SPLASHED WHITE-ENAMELED MOLDED AND
CARVED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
JINGDEZHEN KILNS, SIGNED CHEN GUOZHI, 1820-1860
The bottle is molded and carved on one side with a boy riding a buffalo
and playing a flute beneath a budding willow tree. The reverse is molded
and carved with an inscription describing the scene.
2 ¿ in. (5.3 cm.) high, pink tourmaline stopper
$4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE:
Gerd Lester Collection, New York, 1981.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
LITERATURE:
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R.
Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 172-173,
no. 73.
The inscription can be translated as, "With this short flute producing
hardly a tune, blowing and humming randomly I pass the dune."

For a similar porcelain bottle signed Chen Guozhi see The Joe Grimberg
Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Sotheby’s New York, 14 September
2010, lot 126.

1820-1860年 陳國治作瓷胎模印白地灑綠彩牧童吹笛圖鼻煙壺
來源:
Gerd Lester珍藏, 紐約, 1981年
何瑞秋珍藏, 紐約
出版:
何瑞秋, 《Rivers and Mountains Far from the World - The Rachelle R.
Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary》, 紐約, 1994年, 頁172-173, 編
號73

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