A YELLOWISH-GREEN AND RUSSET JADE SNUFF BOTTLE

MASTER OF THE ROCKS SCHOOL, 1740-1840

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A YELLOWISH-GREEN AND RUSSET JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
MASTER OF THE ROCKS SCHOOL, 1740-1840
The rounded, rectangular bottle is well carved through the russet-brown skin with a pair of confronted chi dragon on one side, and with the rising sun amidst wispy clouds on the reverse. The narrow sides are carved with chi dragon grasping lingzhi branches.
2 5/8 in. (6.8 cm.) high, coral stopper

来源

Eldred's, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 20 August 1986, lot 290.

出版

Noëlle King O'Connor, "Water: Changing Imagery in Chinese Art," Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Baltimore, Autumn 1994, p. 8, fig. 8.
Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Baltimore, Winter 1997, front cover.

展览

Taipei Gallery, New York, Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1-29 October 1993, p. 15.

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拍品专文

The material favored by the Master of the Rocks school was referred to by Zhao Zhiqian in the late Qing period as "yellow steamed-chestnut" and to modern collectors as "han" jade. There seems to have been one workshop specializing in carvings from this distinctive material, known as the Master of the Rocks School. Its main output was of bottles in this material carved with landscape designs, but many other subjects are recorded, including a few with chi dragon designs which may have been partly produced for the Court. A pear-shaped nephrite bottle with chi dragon carved on either side is illustrated in Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 1, Jade, Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 370-371, no. 142, where the chi dragon theme of the school is discussed. Another unusual example from this school carved with chi dragons on either side, from the Meriem Collection, was sold in these rooms, 19 September 2007, lot 669.