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A FINE WHITE AND BLACK JADE SNUFF BOTTLE The present lot, in black, grey and white jade is typical of the Suzhou
Qing Dynasty school of carving. For a further example of Suzhou school carving
Deftly carved around the exterior with a continuous scene of a scholar of a black and white jade snuff bottle, see H.Moss, V.Graham and
gazing up at the pine trees, beside him a boy-attendant prepares a K.B.Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle: The J & J Collection,
jar of wine, all amidst craggy cliffs issuing lingzhi fungi, further along a Vol.1, Weatherhill, 1993, p.71, no.25. The exquisite carving of a
tavern with a sign advertising wine, the stone dominated with charcoal scholar drinking wine while gazing up at the sky and the moon, implies
black and cast with white and gray. that the subject is the famous Tang dynasty poet Li Bai (李白), one of
5.9cm (2 3/8in) high. whose favorite activities was the drinking of wine. On the reverse of
the snuff bottle is a tavern with the character for wine (jiu 酒) hanging
£12,000 - 15,000 outside. Further to the right on the cliff is a poetic inscription in cursive
CNY110,000 - 130,000 calligraphy that reads: ‘醉月春曉’, which may be translated as ‘The
drunken moon in spring dawn’.
清 墨玉松蔭高士圖鼻煙壺
A related black and white jade snuff bottle with a figure of a scholar
Provenance: a distinguished Asian private collection drinking under a pine tree, late Qing dynasty, was sold in our San
Francisco Rooms, 13 December 2010, lot 5046.
來源： 顯貴亞洲私人收藏

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