Lot Essay
The bat, peach and deer are all symbols of longevity. The deer depicted here is holding the lingzhi, also representing immortality.
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1780-1850
Details
A PALE YELLOW OVERLAY CLEAR RED GLASS BOTTLE
1780-1850
Of flattened baluster shape, carved through a pale lemon yellow overlay with a peach tree rising from rockwork above breaking waves with a bat nearby, the branches extending to the other side carved with a deer holding a lingzhi in its mouth standing on a rockwork platform, all on a transparent red ground, stopper
2.13/16in. (7.1cm.)
1780-1850
Of flattened baluster shape, carved through a pale lemon yellow overlay with a peach tree rising from rockwork above breaking waves with a bat nearby, the branches extending to the other side carved with a deer holding a lingzhi in its mouth standing on a rockwork platform, all on a transparent red ground, stopper
2.13/16in. (7.1cm.)
Provenance
Alice B. McReynolds Collection
Sotheby's, New York, 16 April 1985, lot 33
Sotheby's, New York, 16 April 1985, lot 33