A FIVE-COLOR OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

LI JUNTING SCHOOL, ATTRIBUTED TO YANGZHOU, 1820-1850

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A FIVE-COLOR OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
LI JUNTING SCHOOL, ATTRIBUTED TO YANGZHOU, 1820-1850
Of rounded, rectangular shape, well carved through the green, lavender-blue, yellow, tawny brown and pink overlay with Liu Hai and his three-legged toad on one side, the reverse with three rams resting below the sun, an oval seal to one side reading Xiaomei, rose quartz stopper
2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

It is very unusual to find a bottle bearing the name Xiaomei, which was the sobriquet of Wang Su (1794-1877), a prominent literatus and painter from the Yangzhou area. His name appears on a small group of bottles from the Li Junting School, including one in the Bloch Collection illustrated by H. Moss, V. Graham and K.B. Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, vol. 5, Glass, Hong Kong, 2002, no. 1046, where the connection between Li and the School is explored.

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