A VERY RARE CARVED BLACK AND WHITE JADE FISH-FORM SNUFF BOTTLE
A VERY RARE CARVED BLACK AND WHITE JADE FISH-FORM SNUFF BOTTLE

ATTRIBUTED TO SUZHOU, 1720-1830

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A VERY RARE CARVED BLACK AND WHITE JADE FISH-FORM SNUFF BOTTLE
ATTRIBUTED TO SUZHOU, 1720-1830
The well-hollowed stone of intense black, grey and white tone is amusingly carved in the form of a goldfish. The mouth of the fish serves as the mouth of the bottle, with a smaller goldfish and a fruiting crab-apple branch beneath the body.
2 in. (5.1 cm.) high
來源
Y.F. Yang & Co.
Hugh Moss Collection
The J & J Collection; sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 2007, lot 1
出版
JICSBS, Autumn 1989, front cover
Moss, Graham, Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle. The J & J Collection, New York/Tokyo, 1993, vol. I, no. 6
Silver Kris, February 1995, p. 41
展覽
Hugh M. Moss Ltd., London, September 1974
Christie's , 100 Selected Chinese Snuff Bottles from The J & J Collection, King Street, London, 1987, front cover and no. 75
Christie's, New York, 1993
Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1994
Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Snuff Bottles from China. The J & J Collection, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1996-1997
The Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle: The J & J Collection, London, 1997
Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2002
Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 2002
National Museum of History, The Miniature World: An exhibition of snuff bottles from the J & J Collection, Taipei, 2002
Poly Art Museum, The Art of Chinese Snuff Bottle: Selected Snuff Bottle Collection of James Li, Beijing , 2003

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There is a fairly wide range of snuff bottles carved in the form of a fish, but this extraordinary example stands out as one of the masterpieces of the genre.
Characteristics of the carving style associated with the area of Suzhou include a tendency to work on several planes of carving, giving superb definition to each impeccably finished plane, and brilliant utilisation of the natural colours in the stone, incorporating in the design every nuance of color. Although an unusual subject for the school, this remarkable fish-form bottle exhibits all of these factors, allowing for a confident attribution to the Suzhou school.
The choice of material used for this bottle, a distinctive nephrite of black, grey and white mixed in a single specimen, was also extremely popular with the school. Here the colour is masterfully utilised. The fat, larger goldfish which forms the main part of the composition exhibits great sculptural strength, its exaggerated plumpness creating additional functional space while endowing the fish with an amusing, overstuffed personality. The clever sculptor has incorporated the opening required of a snuff bottle into the design by giving the fish a wide-open mouth.
The combination of the goldfish (jinyu) and crab-apple (haitang) expresses a blessing for wealth and prosperity, a play on the well-known phrase, jinyu mantang, "May your hall be filled with gold and jade."
A closely related black and white jade goldfish-form bottle in the Mary and George Bloch Collection is reproduced by Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, vol. 1, Jade, pp. 142-43, no. 56. Like the present bottle, the Bloch bottle employs a paler streak in the material as a horizontal band. Both bottles have grey-white material beneath the fish carved in relief, although the Bloch example incorporates a frog into the design rather than a smaller goldfish. It is likely that both bottles date from the same period and are by the same hand, or, at least, were produced in the same workshop.

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