A SUZHOU SHADOW AGATE BOTTLE

1780-1880

细节

A SUZHOU SHADOW AGATE BOTTLE
1780-1880
Of rounded shape, carved in relief cleverly using the dark inclusions in the stone to great effect to depict two fishermen and a boy attendant with nets, the figures up to their knees in a stream with carp rising to the surface, the reverse mostly plain with a small fish above the foot, stopper
2in. (5cm.) high

拍品专文

For another Suzhou example with two fisherman at the water's edge pulling fish from the river see, A Congregation of Snuff Bottle Connoisseurs, An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles at the Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1996, Catalogue, pp. 168-169, no. 125

See, also, another formerly from the Bob C. Stevens Collection illustrated by Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group, London, 1971, p. 69, no. 181