CHINE, XVIIIEME-XIXEME SIECLE

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TABATIERE EN VERRE ROUGE SCULPTE
CHINE, XVIIIEME-XIXEME SIECLE
De forme ovale aplatie, les deux faces ornées d'un médaillon rehaussé des corps de deux chilong formant le caractère long (dragon), le col agrémenté de feuilles de bananier, le bouchon en jadéite cerclée de métal
Hauteur: 8,4 cm. (3 5/16 in.)

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Further details

A CARVED RED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
CHINA, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

The dragon is a symbol of the natural world, adaptability and transformation and is one of the Twelve Symbols of Sovereignty, representing the emperor. The combination of this symbolism with the auspicious long character appears on many works of art that the emperor distributed as gifts.
See the blue overlay white glass snuff bottle sold in our New York Rooms, 19 March 2008, lot 208 ; the duan inkstone bottle from the Holden collection also sold in our New York Rooms, 21 March 2000, lot 178

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