A BROWN OVERLAY OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
A BROWN OVERLAY OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE

1780-1820, SEAL TIANRAN, YANGZHOU SEAL SCHOOL

细节
A BROWN OVERLAY OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
1780-1820, seal Tianran, Yangzhou Seal School
Of flattened rounded rectangular shape, carved with an equestrian archer and his dog looking up at a wounded goose hit by his arrow to one side and further geese amidst reeds to the other, the shorter sides with stylized fixed-ring handles, stopper
2.3/8in. (6cm.) high
来源
Hugh Moss, Hong Kong, 1993
出版
Rachelle R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 336-337, no. 150
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 260

拍品专文

A seal above the hunter reads tianran (natural).

For a very similar bottle from the Mary and George Bloch Collection, see Clare Lawrence, 'An Analysis of the Seal School Group of Glass Snuff Bottles,' I.C.S.B.S., Journal, Summer, 1993, pp. 4-17, fig. 30 where it is compared to a painting by one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou," Hua Yan, dated 1755 depicting a similar scene. The Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou followed the traditional literati practice of adding inscriptions and seals to their work. Interestingly, the Eight Eccentrics also used sepia to great effect on their canvases and the peculiar color found on this bottle certainly mimics its use.

For further discussion of the Bloch bottle which is signed by the maker Sun Shihua and dated 1807 see Robert Kleiner, op. cit., pp. 259-260, no. 172