A CARVED CAMEO JASPER BOTTLE

OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1760-1840

Details

A CARVED CAMEO JASPER BOTTLE
Official School, 1760-1840
Of rounded-rectangular form, well carved on one side utilizing the moss-green markings to create a design of a bear looking up at a startled hawk perched in a pine tree, all against a reddish-brown ground, the reverse uncarved and the stone of an ochre tone with some faint reddish mottling, with russet patches and sparse thin diagonal veining near one shoulder, stopper
2 5/16in. (6cm.) high

Provenance

Hugh M. Moss, Ltd., London.

Literature

H. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, London, 1971, p. 76, no. 58.

Lot Essay

For a discussion of the Official School of hard-stone carving, see H. Moss, V. Graham, K.B. Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 2, Quartz, no. 258. The eagle (ying) and bear (xiong) provide the rebus: yingxiong benge, 'the innate character of a hero.'

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