A RARE THREE-COLOR OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

YANGZHOU SCHOOL, 1780-1860

Details

A RARE THREE-COLOR OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
YANGZHOU SCHOOL, 1780-1860
Of flattened, ovoid form, the bottle is finely carved through the tomato-red, emerald-green, and pale egg-yolk yellow overlays on one side with a scene of the immortal He Xianggu floating in a log boat in a lotus pound. The reverse is carved with a fisherman navigating a sampan in the moonlight with a pavilion in the distance.
2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) high, malachite stopper

Provenance

Kaynes-Klitz Collection; Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16 November 1989, lot 20.

Exhibited

Taipei Gallery, New York, Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1-29 October 1993, p. 5.

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Lot Essay

This is an extremely rare Yangzhou multiple-overlay snuff bottle for its unusually small size and color combination. Another example with this color combination in the collection of Eric Young (Part III), decorated with a boy on a water buffalo, was sold at Sotheby's London, 24 April 1989, lot 249. A Yangzhou School bottle with cinnabar-red overlay on a coffee-tone ground, carved with scenes similar to those on present bottle, from the Kaynes-Klitz Collection, Part II, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30 October 1990, lot 13.

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