拍品 173
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AN INCISED IVORY BOTTLE
AN INCISED IVORY BOTTLE

SIGNED YU SHI KE (SHAOSHEN), CIRCA 1880

細節
AN INCISED IVORY BOTTLE
Signed Yu Shi ke (Shaoshen), circa 1880
Of flattened rounded tapering square shape, incised and highlighted in black with two boys playing blind man's bluff below a tree to one side, the reverse delicately incised in miniature with an article entitled Shi shuo, stopper
1.13/16in. (4.6cm.) high

拍品專文

Yu Shi is the real name of Shao Shen, famous for his miniature calligraphy on ivory. He worked in the late Qing and was also known for his carving on the bone of fans.

The article Shi Shuo is by the Tang dynasty scholar Han Yu and relates to a teacher and his students.

For another ivory bottle of similar size and shape, see Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles: 5, Middlesex, 1969, p. 17, lower right corner.