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A LARGE GRAY, BROWN AND CELADON JADE 'FIGURAL LANDSCAPE' SNUFF BOTTLE Suzhou, 1750-1820 image 1
A LARGE GRAY, BROWN AND CELADON JADE 'FIGURAL LANDSCAPE' SNUFF BOTTLE Suzhou, 1750-1820 image 2
PROPERTY FROM THE FRANCINE AND BERNARD WALD COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
Lot 243

A LARGE GRAY, BROWN AND CELADON JADE 'FIGURAL LANDSCAPE' SNUFF BOTTLE
Suzhou, 1750-1820

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
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A LARGE GRAY, BROWN AND CELADON JADE 'FIGURAL LANDSCAPE' SNUFF BOTTLE

Suzhou, 1750-1820
Of bulbous spade shape, carved in relief with two small figures dwarfed by massive, serrated rockwork out-crops, bordered with wutong and other trees on one side and utilizing the darker inclusions in the stone, the reverse side more serrated rockwork but in lower relief and using the plain celadon stone and further carved with swirling clouds to the shoulder and short neck below a flat cylindrical rim and small mouth with well-hollowed interior, supported on a flat oval base.
2 5/8in (6.6cm) high, stopper

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1750-1820 蘇作青玉帶棕灰沁心刻山水人物鼻煙壺一件

Provenance
Robert Hall, London, 1990

Published:
Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles III, London, 1990, p. 22, no. 11
ICSBS, Journal, Winter 2008, front cover

來源:
Robert Hall,倫敦,1990年

出版:
Robret Hall 《Chinese Snuff Bottles III (中國鼻煙壺 第三部分)》,倫敦,1990年,22頁,編號11
ICSBS Journal,2008年冬季刊,封面

For another Suzhou jade bottle of almost identical shape but with a paler brown skin on a creamy celadon stone rather than the brown and gray skin on a celadon green ground of the Wald example, see Clare Lawrence, Miniature Masterpieces from the Middle Kingdom, The Monimar Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 1996, pp. 142-143, no. 65, where the author points out the omnipresence of natural landscapes in the bottles from this source, often with continuous scenes with dramatic rockwork and scrolling clouds, and various figures, scholars, sages and fishermen, their clothes, hats and other identifying attributes carefully picked out in the natural marking's in the stone.

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