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A WHITE AND RUSSET JADE 'HUANG CHENYAN AND WEIQI PLAYERS' SNUFF BOTTLE Suzhou, 1740-1820 image 1
A WHITE AND RUSSET JADE 'HUANG CHENYAN AND WEIQI PLAYERS' SNUFF BOTTLE Suzhou, 1740-1820 image 2
PROPERTY FROM THE FRANCINE AND BERNARD WALD COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
Lot 195

A WHITE AND RUSSET JADE 'HUANG CHENYAN AND WEIQI PLAYERS' SNUFF BOTTLE
Suzhou, 1740-1820

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

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A WHITE AND RUSSET JADE 'HUANG CHENYAN AND WEIQI PLAYERS' SNUFF BOTTLE

Suzhou, 1740-1820
Of large rounded shape, delicately carved in low relief with the scene of a lone, hooded and robed figure, probably Huangg Chenyan, riding a mule in a bare winter landscape under pine and near rockwork to one side, and with two scholars playing weiqi, a young assistant nearby clutching a bundle, perhaps a wrapped qin, under further pine, all below a very slightly waisted short neck with concave rim and small mouth, supported on a flat oval base.
2 3/8in (6cm) high, stopper

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1740-1820 蘇作棕白玉刻「黄承彦弈棋悟道」鼻煙壺一件

Huang Chengyan was a reclusive scholar who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. He does appear in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but as a fairly minor character. He is often mistaken for Meng Haoran, another scholar who rides a mule, but who is usually depicted with his assistant who carries an early plum blossom on his shoulders. Huang Chengyan, on the other hand, is either depicted alone, or when he does have an assistant, he carries a double gourd vessel on his back.

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