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A BLACK-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1780-1860 Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 2000.
The bottle is carved through the opaque black overlay to the opaque Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2917.
white ground with a deer on one side and a crane on the other. Each
grasps a lingzhi sprig in its mouth beside further lingzhi growing 1780-1860年 涅白地套黑玻璃鶴鹿同春圖鼻煙壺
from rocks, a bat suspending a peach is on each narrow side.

2Ω in. (6.3 cm.) high, jadeite stopper

$2,400-3,400

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A CARVED WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
1770-1850
The bottle is carved in the form of a cloth pouch tied with a ribbon
that secures a chrysanthemum stem, and on one side with a
monkey clambering after a bee.

2¡ in. (6 cm.), high, stone stopper
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1993.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 3779.

The depiction of a bee or wasp, feng, together with monkey, hou,
is a rebus for fenghou, which may be translated as ‘to confer with
a title’.
1770-1850年 白玉雕代代封侯鼻煙壺

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