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拍品专文
The inscription, wan zi qian hong zong shi chun, can be read as "Thousands of blossoms in purple and red announce the arrival of spring."
See an article entitled 'The Colour of Stones' by Ming Wilson, T.O.C.S., London, 1997-1998, vol. 62, pp. 27-37, where the author notes "Strictly speaking the term 'agate' only refers to a quartz with concentric ring patter. A cryptocrystalline quartz without this concentric ring pattern is called chalcedony. A red chalcedony is called carnelian, and if the stone has red and white bands it is called sardonyx." The author illustrates a 19th century brushrest from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, fig. 5, to illustrate the stone. It is carved with numerous chilong from the red bands over a white vessel.
For a smaller example carved from a red carnelian with two chilong, to the sides, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2, Part 2, Quartz, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 430-431, no. 338
See, also, Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 258, no. 162, where the authors note, "This distinctive type of rich coral-red and white carnelian seems to have been hardly used before the Qing dynasty - although carnelian beads of a distinctly different appearance are known from archaic sites. Several other objects are known, most of small size (although not all as small as a snuff bottle), which could reasonably be dated to the mid-Qing period, but as a rule the nineteenth century seems a more likely period to which to attribute them. The material may have been imported from abroad. It is an extremely effective stone with its bright contrasts...As a rule the distinctly separate colours are used to perform fairly obvious design functions. See, for instance, Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group, no. 32, where the brilliant red is used as bold, scrolling clouds against a white ground, or Sotheby's, Billingshurst, 25 June 1991, lot 117, where it is used to create red bats on white persimmons."
In concept though not in design, this bottle bears some resemblance to a nephrite pebble bottle carved with a chilong from brown inclusions illustrated by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 72-73, no. 24, where the authors argue for an Imperial attribution.
See an article entitled 'The Colour of Stones' by Ming Wilson, T.O.C.S., London, 1997-1998, vol. 62, pp. 27-37, where the author notes "Strictly speaking the term 'agate' only refers to a quartz with concentric ring patter. A cryptocrystalline quartz without this concentric ring pattern is called chalcedony. A red chalcedony is called carnelian, and if the stone has red and white bands it is called sardonyx." The author illustrates a 19th century brushrest from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, fig. 5, to illustrate the stone. It is carved with numerous chilong from the red bands over a white vessel.
For a smaller example carved from a red carnelian with two chilong, to the sides, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2, Part 2, Quartz, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 430-431, no. 338
See, also, Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 258, no. 162, where the authors note, "This distinctive type of rich coral-red and white carnelian seems to have been hardly used before the Qing dynasty - although carnelian beads of a distinctly different appearance are known from archaic sites. Several other objects are known, most of small size (although not all as small as a snuff bottle), which could reasonably be dated to the mid-Qing period, but as a rule the nineteenth century seems a more likely period to which to attribute them. The material may have been imported from abroad. It is an extremely effective stone with its bright contrasts...As a rule the distinctly separate colours are used to perform fairly obvious design functions. See, for instance, Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group, no. 32, where the brilliant red is used as bold, scrolling clouds against a white ground, or Sotheby's, Billingshurst, 25 June 1991, lot 117, where it is used to create red bats on white persimmons."
In concept though not in design, this bottle bears some resemblance to a nephrite pebble bottle carved with a chilong from brown inclusions illustrated by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 72-73, no. 24, where the authors argue for an Imperial attribution.