A FINE CARVED YELLOWISH-GREEN AND RUSSET JADE BOTTLE

MASTER OF THE ROCKS SCHOOL, 1740-1840

細節

A FINE CARVED YELLOWISH-GREEN AND RUSSET JADE BOTTLE
Master of the Rocks School, 1740-1840
Of rounded-rectangular shape with sloping shoulders, cleverly carved through the brown skin with a scene of Shoulao, the God of Lengevity, standing beneath gnarled pine, a kneeling monkey offering him a peach, with lingzhi growing nearby, the sides with mask and fixed-ring handles, the reverse with sparse ground foliage, stopper
2½in. (6.4cm.) high

來源

Hilda Somers Collection, acquired in 1945.

展覽

Chinese Snuff Bottles, Taipei Gallery, New York, October 1993, p. 15.

拍品專文

For a discussion of the Master of the Rocks School of carving, see H. Moss, V. Graham, K.B. Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong, 1995, vol. 1, Jade, nos. 133 - 143. This impressive example of the school depicts the monkey who stole the peaches of longevity from the garden of Xiwangmu, Queen Mother of the West, offering one to the God of Longevity.

For a similar Master of the Rocks bottle in the same material, see L. S. Perry, Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Adventures and Studies of a Collector, Rutland, Vermont, 1960, p. 106, no. 30.