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A CHALCEDONY AGATE 'SCHOLARS IN GARDEN SETTINGS' SNUFF BOTTLE Suzhou, School of Zhiting, 1730-1850 image 1
A CHALCEDONY AGATE 'SCHOLARS IN GARDEN SETTINGS' SNUFF BOTTLE Suzhou, School of Zhiting, 1730-1850 image 2
A CHALCEDONY AGATE 'SCHOLARS IN GARDEN SETTINGS' SNUFF BOTTLE Suzhou, School of Zhiting, 1730-1850 image 3
PROPERTY FROM THE FRANCINE AND BERNARD WALD COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
Lot 177

A CHALCEDONY AGATE 'SCHOLARS IN GARDEN SETTINGS' SNUFF BOTTLE
Suzhou, School of Zhiting, 1730-1850

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
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A CHALCEDONY AGATE 'SCHOLARS IN GARDEN SETTINGS' SNUFF BOTTLE

Suzhou, School of Zhiting, 1730-1850
Of slightly bulbous rounded shape, carved in relief with a bearded scholar standing before a painting table and reaching to grasp a blossoming prunus branch that grows from a serrated rocky outcrop on the opposite, narrow side, his nearby attendant proffers a cup of wine, the reverse with a scholar seated on a rocky outcrop with a wine jar at his feet below a craggy overhang and an attendant figure with his back turned to his master, possibly raising a wine cup, or perhaps genuflecting, beneath a pine, below a slightly waisted cylindrical neck with rounded rim, small mouth and well hollowed interior, supported on a simple flat oval base.
2 1/16in (5.3cm) high, stopper

Footnotes

1730-1850 蘇州芝亭流派 瑪瑙刻幽園雅士鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Gerd Lester Collection
The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong
Bonhams Hong Kong, 18 November 2011, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, lot 5
Asian Art Studio, Los Angeles, California

Published:
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1987, p. 107, no. 150.
Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2, Part 2, Quartz, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 516-5217, no. 369.

Exhibited:
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, October 1987
Creditanstalt, Vienna, May-June 1993

來源:
Gerd Lester 收藏
瑪麗及莊智博珍藏,香港
邦瀚斯,香港,2011年11月18日,瑪麗及莊智博珍藏,拍品號5
亞洲藝術工作室,加利福尼亞

出版:
Robert Kleiner, 《瑪麗及佐治伯樂鼻煙壺珍藏》,香港,1987年,107頁,編號150
莫士撝, Victor Graham 及曾嘉寶,《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection》,卷二,第二部分,石英, 香港,1998年,516-517頁,編號369

展覽:
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., 倫敦, 1987年10月
Creditanstalt, 維也納, 1993年5月-6月

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