A LARGE SUZHOU BLACK AND WHITE JADE BOTTLE

1780-1850, SIGNED SUN BING AND SEAL OF REN OR YU REN

细节
A LARGE SUZHOU BLACK AND WHITE JADE BOTTLE
1780-1850, Signed Sun Bing and Seal of Ren or Yu Ren
Of large rounded rectangular shape, carved in high relief on one side through a white skin with a robed figure dismounted from his trusty saddled steed before a small building and rockwork, and on the other with a waterfall and stream amidst serrated rockwork and various vertical lines of calligraphy including the signature and seal, and describing a Three Kingdoms dynasty figure, presumably depicted on the other side, stopper
2.13/16in. (7cm.) high, stand

拍品专文

For another black and white jade bottle of similar type, also signed Sun Bing, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 1, Jade, Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 318-319, no. 126. This example, however, has a much brighter and clearer white relief giving a more impressive cameo quality. The reverse side of the present bottle is also carved with more attention to detail depicting, as it does, a stream and waterfall, clearly carved from gray inclusions in the stone

The signature Sun Bing on the present example followed by the seal Ren or Yu Ren indicates that both this bottle and the Bloch example are from the same hand, and as Moss suggests, ibid., p. 318, this whole group of Suzhou bottles may be not only stylistically homogenous in their use of inscriptions but might perhaps all be by the same hand