拍品 123
123
A FINE AND VERY RARE WHITE JADE BEAR BOTTLE
PROPERTY FROM THE HUNTING FOLGER DEUTSCH COLLECTION
A FINE AND VERY RARE WHITE JADE BEAR BOTTLE

1730-1850

細節
A FINE AND VERY RARE WHITE JADE BEAR BOTTLE
1730-1850
Well carved as a bear seated in a tense pose with legs tucked close to its body and balancing a small ovoid jar on its head, the fur on the edges of its ears and its tail suggested with fine incised lines, the stone of even white tone, stopper
2 1/8in. (5.4cm.) high

拍品專文

Compare two related white jade bear-form bottles, both lacking the small jar on top of the head, one in the J & J Collection, illustrated by H. Moss, V. Graham and K. B. Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, New York, 1993, p. 34, no. 1, the other in the Mary and George Bloch Collection, illustrated by the same authors, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 1995, vol. 1, Jade, p. 108-109, no. 42. The latter bottle formerly sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 29 April 1992, lot 555, is illustrated in Sotheby's, Hong Kong: Twenty Years, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 286, no. 492.