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Suzhou, 1700-1780
Of bulbous circular form tapering to an oval neck, flat rim and small mouth opening, carved with a luohan seated on a rocky outcropping and reading a sutra book below swirling clouds, reversed by Meng Haoran holding a civil tablet and riding his donkey while looking back at his attendant, a large rock picked out by a russet inclusion and flanked by a paulownia and towering pine.
2 5/16in (5.9cm), stopper
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1700-1780 白玉巧雕孟浩然踏雪尋梅圖鼻煙壺一件
蘇州作
Provenance:
The Collection of Edward T. Chow
Sotheby's London, 9 June 1981, lot 96
Guo'an Collection, inventory no. 340
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30 October 2000, lot 622
Property from an Important Private Collection
仇焱之(Edward T. Chow)珍藏
倫敦蘇富比,1981 年 6 月 9 日,拍品編號 96
郭安珍藏,收藏編號 340
香港蘇富比, 2000 年 10 月 30 日,拍品編號 622
重要私人收藏
The combination of Meng Haoran, a Tang dynasty reclusive poet (689-740 AD) and his attendant in search of the elusive prunus in the winter, can be found as a popular subject for snuff bottles, but few exist as finely executed as this current lot. See a discussion of this subject and its symbolism in JICSBS, Summer 1994, pp. 4-16. See a related example sold at Sotheby's London, 21 June 1995, lot 38.
Compare the brilliant rendering of the with its use of the russet skin to depict the 'strange rock' with a bottle in the J & J Collection, published in Moss, Graham and Tsang, , Vol. I, New York, 1993, no. 23, and a nearly identical composition with a scholar, shown in , no. 21.