拍品 433
433
OTHER PROPERTIES
A WHITE JADE FISH-SHAPED BOTTLE

细节
A WHITE JADE FISH-SHAPED BOTTLE
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Naturalistically carved with the lower fins forming the foot of the bottle and the fish's open mouth forming the stopper aperture, the scales of the fish lightly incised and carved with lotus and aquatic sprays and a smaller fish, stopper

拍品专文

For a gray jade fish-shaped bottle of more flattened shape see Hugh M. Moss, Snuff Bottles from China, p. 73, no. 35

For a quartz example of a carp see Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group, p. 83, no. 216; for a sea-green nephrite example see Hugh M. Moss, Ltd., Chinese Snuff Bottles, Catalogue no. 31, p. 14; for a brown jade bottle see Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 15 October-26 November, 1977, Exhibition Catalogue no. 137, p. 67