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A FINE PALE-CEADON-YELLOW JADE 'ATTENDANT TO WANG XIZHI ' SNUFF BOTTLE 1750-1850 image 1
A FINE PALE-CEADON-YELLOW JADE 'ATTENDANT TO WANG XIZHI ' SNUFF BOTTLE 1750-1850 image 2
PROPERTY FROM THE FRANCINE AND BERNARD WALD COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
Lot 181

A FINE PALE-YELLOW JADE 'ATTENDANT TO WANG XIZHI ' SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1850

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$5,120 inc. premium

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A FINE PALE-YELLOW JADE 'ATTENDANT TO WANG XIZHI ' SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1850
Depicting the boy attendant to the famous scholar and calligrapher, Wang Xizhi (王羲之, 303–361) standing in flowing belted robes with baggy arms, and holding a goose, the top of the boy's head with a small cylindrical hole for the mouth of the bottle, fairly well hollowed to the interior, supported on a flat circular base.
2 3/4in (7cm) high, stopper

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1750-1850 精雅淺黃玉王羲之侍童鼻煙壺一件

Wang Xizhi (王羲之, 303–361) is considered to be among the greatest of China's calligraphers. His biography, noted in the official history of the Jin 晋 dynasty (c. 265–420) mentions his calligraphic skill and love of geese. For the price of writing a copy of Laozi's Daodejing for a local Daoist priest, Wang received a flock of geese that he coveted and came to treasure. Most depictions of Wang show him watching geese from a riverbank or being offered a goose by his servant or the priest.

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