A BLUE-OVERLAY OPAQUE WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

Lot 881
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ID 718499
Lot 881 | A BLUE-OVERLAY OPAQUE WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
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$ 4 000 – 6 000
A BLUE-OVERLAY OPAQUE WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

YANGZHOU, 1780-1850

The bottle is carved on one side with a leafy branch draping over a pair of ducks with a four-character seal inscription on the shoulder reading chunjiang shuinuan (water warms up in a spring river). The reverse is decorated with a lotus plant emerging from an alms bowl next to a spray of orchid flowers with a butterfly fluttering above.

2 1⁄8 in. (5.4 cm.) high, coral stopper







Provenance

Arthur Gadsby Collection.

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 May 1991, lot 15.

Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.





Literature

H. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, London, 1971, p. 107, pl. 193.

JICSBS, March 1979, p. 17, fig.14.

R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 106-107, no. 40.





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