清十七 / 十八世紀 白玉「梅花圖」鼻煙壺 《靜觀賞玩》款 （傳）蘇作

of rectangular form, gently sloping at the shoulders and supported on a short raised foot, intricately worked in low relief on one side with a prunus tree issuing from rockwork adjacent to a four-character zhuanshu inscription jingguan shangwan ('peacefully observing and enjoying'), the reverse undecorated, the stone of an even white colour

Good condition.
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可參考一相類作例，錄Hugh Moss、Victor Graham 及曾嘉寶，《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection》，卷1，香港，1995年，編號118。作者論述，此類品應屬蘇作初期風格。