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1880-1930
Details
A CARVED YELLOW GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1880-1930
The bottle is carved on either side with a panel linked by ruyi emerging from rocks on either narrow side. One side is carved with a mythical beast, xiezhai, above two Buddhist lions guarding a flaming pearl, and the reverse is carved with a qilin standing on rocks looking up at a phoenix in flight. The base has an apocryphal Qianlong mark.
3 3⁄8 in. (8.3 cm.) high, pink tourmaline stopper
1880-1930
The bottle is carved on either side with a panel linked by ruyi emerging from rocks on either narrow side. One side is carved with a mythical beast, xiezhai, above two Buddhist lions guarding a flaming pearl, and the reverse is carved with a qilin standing on rocks looking up at a phoenix in flight. The base has an apocryphal Qianlong mark.
3 3⁄8 in. (8.3 cm.) high, pink tourmaline stopper
Provenance
R.W. Jackson Collection.
Ashkenazie & Co. San Francisco, 1981.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
Ashkenazie & Co. San Francisco, 1981.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
Literature
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 24-25, no. 1.
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