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YANGZHOU, DATED TO THE AUTUMN OF RENWU (1882)
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A PALE BLUE-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
YANGZHOU, DATED TO THE AUTUMN OF RENWU (1882)
The bottle is delicately carved through the translucent pale blue overlay to the milky glass bottle with a continuous outdoor scene containing a crane clutching a branch of lingzhi fungus in flight above a scholar on a bridge, and a figure in a boat transporting an ox, with a pavilion and pine tree in the foreground. A dated inscription renwu qiuri zuo ('made in autumn of the year renwu'), is on the shoulder.
2 ½ in. (6.3 cm.) high, glass stopper
YANGZHOU, DATED TO THE AUTUMN OF RENWU (1882)
The bottle is delicately carved through the translucent pale blue overlay to the milky glass bottle with a continuous outdoor scene containing a crane clutching a branch of lingzhi fungus in flight above a scholar on a bridge, and a figure in a boat transporting an ox, with a pavilion and pine tree in the foreground. A dated inscription renwu qiuri zuo ('made in autumn of the year renwu'), is on the shoulder.
2 ½ in. (6.3 cm.) high, glass stopper
Provenance
Robert Kleiner, London, 2002.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3349
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3349
Exhibited
Corning, New York, Corning Museum of Glass, 2007-2008.
Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.