A SUZHOU SHADOW AGATE BOTTLE

1750-1850

细节

A SUZHOU SHADOW AGATE BOTTLE
1750-1850
Of flattened rounded shape, carved in relief with clever use of dark inclusions with the figure of Liu Hai near a mythical three-legged toad exhaling a plume with a central pearl near rockwork with relief-carved calligraphy reading Xian Lu Ming Zhu (immortal dew and pearls) below clouds which continue onto the reverse with further rockwork, pine, birds in flight, lingzhi fungus and incised with two characters, Penghu (thatched roof and pot), stopper
2in. (5.1cm.) high, stand

拍品专文

For a similar Suzhou agate bottle depicting Liu Hai and his three-legged toad see Robert W.L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Catalogue, Hong Kong, 1987, p. 111, no. 155; and also published by Hugh Moss, Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group, London, 1971, p. 67, fig. 174

For a Suzhou jade bottle depicting Liu Hai see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 1987, Catalogue, pp. 108-109, no. 54

See, also, two not dissimilar Suzhou agate bottles illustrated by Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York and Tokyo, 1980, p. 146, nos. 570-571