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1780-1850
Details
A PALE BROWN-OVERLAY CREAMY-BEIGE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1780-1850
The bottle is delicately carved through the honey-brown overlay with a continous scene depicting on one side a crane perched on a rock amidst cresting waves and with a counter in its beak, opposite lingzhi fungus emerging from a rock formation below billowing clouds. The reverse is carved with a lingzhi plant emerging from a large rock formation beneath clouds and a bat in flight.
2 1⁄8 in. (5.4 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
1780-1850
The bottle is delicately carved through the honey-brown overlay with a continous scene depicting on one side a crane perched on a rock amidst cresting waves and with a counter in its beak, opposite lingzhi fungus emerging from a rock formation below billowing clouds. The reverse is carved with a lingzhi plant emerging from a large rock formation beneath clouds and a bat in flight.
2 1⁄8 in. (5.4 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
Provenance
Alice B. McReynolds Collection.
Sotheby's New York, 16 April 1985, lot 32.
Ashkenazie & Co., San Francisco, 1985.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
Sotheby's New York, 16 April 1985, lot 32.
Ashkenazie & Co., San Francisco, 1985.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
Literature
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 102-103, no. 38.
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