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Lot Essay
This bottle, in its use of stone, formal integrity, extraordinary hollowing and well conceived subject matter, can be satisfactorily compared to an example, illustrated by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, p. 221, no. 133, which the authors note as "one of the transcendent masterpieces of the snuff bottle arts".
See Rachelle R. Holden, op. cit., p. 295, for a discussion of the rebus, deyu, (assuming that the figure is a fisherman and the bird a magpie) which can be read as 'May you have more than you need.' Similarly, if one sees the bird on the reverse as a magpie, then another rebus meaning 'Happiness up to one's eyebrows' can be read.
See Rachelle R. Holden, op. cit., p. 295, for a discussion of the rebus, deyu, (assuming that the figure is a fisherman and the bird a magpie) which can be read as 'May you have more than you need.' Similarly, if one sees the bird on the reverse as a magpie, then another rebus meaning 'Happiness up to one's eyebrows' can be read.