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1780-1860 黑白玉刻孟浩然踏雪尋梅鼻煙壺一件
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For an agate bottle of the same subject and a discussion of the story from the novel 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms', see Michael C. Hughes, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Baltimore, 2009, pp. 116-017, no. 91.
See Robert Kleiner, Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Denis Low, Singapore, 1999, p. 55, no. 42, for a black and white and russet jade bottle depicting a standing scholar admiring prunus blossom in a rocky landscape.
For a discussion of the Suzhou group as a whole and an illustration of another black and white Suzhou jade bottle of spade shape with a boating scene, see Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1987, pp. 34-35, no. 36.
For another large black and white jade bottle of spade shape carved with dragon and cloud decoration, see John Gilmore Ford, Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Edward Choate O'Dell Collection, Baltimore, 1982, front cover and pp. 28-29, no. 3