Bottle ID: 813

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MENG HAORAN TRAVELING THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS

Date: 1750-1800

Height: 52 mm

A spinach-green nephrite snuff bottle, very well-hollowed, of rounded form with a cylindrical neck and a neatly carved oval footrim, carved in relief with on one main side a pair of cranes standing on rocks under pine trees, the reverse with Meng Haoran astride his mule crossing a wood plank bridge, shaded by blossoming prunus trees.

 

Provenance:

Christies Paris, December 14, 2022, lot 629
Acquired by the father of V.W.S (1890-1977) in China in the 1930s
The V.W.S. (1918-1974) Collection

 

 

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