AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
乙未年(1895) 葉仲三作「喜上眉梢」圖玻璃内畫鼻煙壺

SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED YIWEI YEAR (1895)

細節
乙未年(1895) 葉仲三作「喜上眉梢」圖玻璃内畫鼻煙壺
來源
Robert Kleiner, London, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4970.
拍場告示
Please note that the date line should read “ATTRIBUTED TO YE BENQI, 1930S”

拍品專文

The imagery of magpies on prunus branches was a popular motif on Qing-dynasty snuff bottles. The magpie is the bird of happiness and the messenger of good news. A magpie on prunus branches forms the rebus, "happiness up to one's eyebrows."

For another inside-painted snuff bottle by Ye Zhongsan decorated with this theme, see D. Low, More Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 349, no. 314, where the author notes that thirty magpies may also signify good wishes for every day of the month.

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