A JAPANESE EMBELLISHED WHITE JADE PEBBLE BOTTLE

THE JADE 18TH/19TH CENTURY, THE EMBELLISHMENT LATER, POSSIBLY THE TSUDA FAMILY OF KYOTO

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A JAPANESE EMBELLISHED WHITE JADE PEBBLE BOTTLE
The Jade 18th/19th Century, The Embellishment Later, Possibly The Tsuda Family of Kyoto
Of natural pebble shape with flat-cut foot, beautifully embellished in soapstone and lacquer with a continuous scene of a lady seated at a rootwood table set with scholars' objects, her attendant with raised arms before her, a wine pot to the side below a tree, and three boys to the other side, two supporting a large vase of magnolia and lingzhi, with areas of russet skin near the simply cut mouth, stopper
2in. (5.7cm.) high, stand

拍品专文

For a discussion of embellished bottles see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham, Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J and J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, pp. 512-515. The authors convincingly argue in favor of Japan as the source of the embellishment, and illustrate an agate example (op.cit., no. 30) also carved on one side with boys supporting a large vase of blossoming branches. See, also, an embellished example with boys similarly costumed and hatted which sold in these rooms, November 27, 1991, lot 149 and is now in the Mary and George Bloch Collection; and another sold Sotheby's, New York, December 2, 1985, lot 122