The Master of the Rocks School, 18th/19th century The nephrite pebble well hollowed, with a recessed, rounded-rectangular foot, carved with a continuous narrative scene of an attendant carrying a qin with his master next to a plate of fruit, about to travel in a landscape of rock and pine, box. 7.3cm (2 7/8in) high. (2).Footnotes十八/十九世紀 黃玉巧雕「携琴訪友」鼻煙壺 Provenance: Robert Kleiner, London, late 1990s 來源： Robert Kleiner收藏，倫敦，上世紀九十年代晚期 Carved in the style of the Master of the Rocks school, with the superb use of different natural colours of the materials, skilfully rendering the main narrative scene, with the pine treen and rockwork entirely picked out of the brown russet skin. The depth of carving through the layers of skin lends a variation in colour to the relief detail that separates it subtly from the ground plane, resulting in a stronger rustic feeling of the scene. Compare with a yellow and russet jade 'landscape' snuff bottle in 'The Master of the Rocks' style depicting the four noble occupations, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, Snuff Bottles from the Mary & George Bloch Collection: Part VIII, 25 May 2014, lot 1032; see another yellow and russet jade 'figures in landscape snuff bottle of the same school, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong Snuff Bottles from the Mary & George Bloch Collection: Part VII, 25 November 2013, lot 74. 與本壺造型，題材及工藝接近的例子，可參考瑪麗及莊志博夫婦舊藏一件黃玉俏雕「漁樵耕讀」圖鼻煙壺，售於香港蘇富比，2014年5月25日，拍品1032；同一舊藏裏也見一件黃玉籽料巧雕「四老」圖鋪首耳鼻煙壺，同售於香港蘇富比，2013年11月25日，拍品74。