清十八 / 十九世紀 水晶雕雪松圖鼻煙壺

Hugh M. Moss Ltd.，1993年

Hugh Moss、Victor Graham 及曾嘉寶，《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection》，卷2，香港，1998年，編號254

Barely perceptible chips to the outer lip and footrim. One slightly larger on the inner footrim. A minute chip just above the rocky outcrop to the right of the bridge.
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This example is typical of the output of the Rustic Crystal Master, with its delightful painterly low relief, continuous landscape scene made up of a series of standard elements (many of which are drawn out in ink in Moss 1971, p. 23, nos. 39 and 40), excellent, although reasonably thick-walled hollowing, and formal integrity. This is yet another example where the bottle is well but not thinly hollowed; typical of the school as a whole apparently, and with an even, but slightly frosted interior to avoid confusion in viewing both sides at once when the bottle is empty. The frosting also enhances the wintry appearance of the scene, and the regular appearance of bare trees in his works suggests that winter scenes were his speciality.