A FINE SUZHOU BLACK AND WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE

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A FINE SUZHOU BLACK AND WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY

The mottled black stone finely carved through a white inclusion on one side to depict a scholar seated on a terrace watching a crane beside rockwork and pine, and on the other with a gilt inscription in cursive script, signed Shi Xiang with a seal, Yun, well hollowed, stopper

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Cf. a bottle by the same maker in the Seattle Art Museum illustrated by Stevens, op. cit., no. 433-4. Cf. also a similar bottle illustrated by Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, no. 36

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