AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED YIWEI YEAR (1895)

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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED YIWEI YEAR (1895)
Decorated on the interior with a continuous scene of thirty magpies perched on and flying about a prunus tree with delicate blossoms.
2 7/8 in. (7.2 cm.) high, glass stopper

来源

Robert Kleiner, London, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4970.

拍场告示

Please note that the date line should read “ATTRIBUTED TO YE BENQI, 1930S”

拍品专文

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.

SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED YIWEI YEAR (1895)

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