A LARGE BLACK AND GRAY JADE BOTTLE AND STOPPER

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A LARGE BLACK AND GRAY JADE BOTTLE AND STOPPER
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Carved in relief on one side with a scholarly figure riding a mule, his attendant walking alongside clutching a plum blossom, surrounded by rockwork, scudding clouds and pine, a gnarled plum tree carved on one of the shoulder sides cleverly incorporating a russet inclusion, the reverse plain, with misty inclusions and high polish, stopper, box

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For a fine Suzhou white jade bottle carved with a similar scene of a scholarly rider and youthful attendant grasping a broken-off plum blossom see Helen White, Snuff Bottles from China, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, 1992, col. pl. 1