A BLUE OVERLAY SEMI-OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE

1750-1850

細節

A BLUE OVERLAY SEMI-OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
1750-1850
Of slender oviform shape, carved in high relief through a deep blue overlay, with an ascending bug-eyed fan-tailed fish to one side, and a descending one to the other, divided by lingzhi handles, stopper
3.1/8in. (7.9cm.) high

來源

The Mei Ling Collection
Sotheby's, New York, 15 March 1984, lot 52

出版

Rachelle R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 184-185, no. 79

拍品專文

In Chinese symbolism the fish, yu, signifies wealth or abundance.

For a blue overlay bottle of nearly identical shape carved with a descending fish to each side below fronds, see Helen White, Snuff Bottles from China, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, London, 1992, pp. 214-215, no. 2