拍品專文
It is more usual to find the monkey swatting the wasp on a cloth-tied bag rather than a cloth-tied vase, as the former is intended as a rebus. The monkey (hou) on a sack (dai) with a wasp (feng) produces the phrase dai fenghou ('May generations of your family be ennobled as marquesses'). For further discussion see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham, Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, p. 56, where a bottle also carved with two monkeys is illustrated, no. 16
For a gourd-shaped bottle with monkeys on the neck see Sotheby's, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, March 23, 1988, lot 242. For another white and russet jade example see Chris Randall, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, no. 17
For a pebble-shaped bottle with a single monkey see Christie's, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, June 3, 1993, lot 324, and for another example see Christie's, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, November 27, 1991, lot 126
A fruit-form bottle, with ribbon-tied center fashioned in a similar style, is illustrated by Robert W. L. Kleiner, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, pl. 32
For a gourd-shaped bottle with monkeys on the neck see Sotheby's, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, March 23, 1988, lot 242. For another white and russet jade example see Chris Randall, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, no. 17
For a pebble-shaped bottle with a single monkey see Christie's, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, June 3, 1993, lot 324, and for another example see Christie's, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, November 27, 1991, lot 126
A fruit-form bottle, with ribbon-tied center fashioned in a similar style, is illustrated by Robert W. L. Kleiner, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, pl. 32