PROPERTY FROM AN ENGLISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
A SUZHOU JADE BOTTLE

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A SUZHOU JADE BOTTLE
1780-1850

Of rounded shape, carved in high relief on one side through the honey-brown skin with a naked boy kneeling atop a buffalo on a rocky ledge below a pine tree, the stone of pale celadon tone, stopper

拍品專文

See Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, pl. 37, for bottle similar in style, but depicting a horse rolling on its back

For a Suzhou jade bottle of similar size, but white and gray in color, depicting a reclining boy and buffalo watched by a sage, see Sotheby's London, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, June 6, 1988, lot 313. For other bottles of similar color, one depicting a monkey, the other a figure on horseback, see Sotheby's New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Mei Ling Collection, March 15, 1984, lot 177 and Sotheby's London, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, April 24, 1989, lot 298