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From the silhouette group of the Official School discussed in lot 115, this is another popular image. The eagle (ying) represents greatness in the individual, and combined with a pine tree, implies the wish that such a great man will live a long life.
For a series of silhouette agate bottles, all with bird designs, still in the Imperial Collection, see Chang Lin-sheng, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, pp. 233 and 234, nos. 324, 325, 327, and 328.
For a series of silhouette agate bottles, all with bird designs, still in the Imperial Collection, see Chang Lin-sheng, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, pp. 233 and 234, nos. 324, 325, 327, and 328.