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A FINE THREE-COLOR-OVERLAY BUBBLE-SUFFUSED GLASS Reverend Headland (1859-1942) was an American missionary and
BOTTLE accomplished scholar who went to Beijing in 1880 and served
1750-1830 as a professor at Peking University. Reverend Headland was
Of rounded shape, the lower third carved through a mostly translucent also instrumental in obtaining books on foreign topics, especially
blue overlay with a continuous wave design that is simply hollowed technology, for Emperor Guangxu. His wife, Dr. Miriam Sinclair
at the base to form a concave oval foot, one side is further carved Headland (1859-1953) served as head of the Presbyterian Women's
through a translucent ruby-red glass with a bat flying above a sun Hospital and then professor of hygiene at Peking University. She
setting below the waves, with rockwork and a lingzhi to either side, the served as physician to the mother and sister of Dowager Empress Cixi
other main face carved through a mostly opaque pea-green glass with and interacted frequently with many members of the royal family, both
lotus pads, buds and flowerheads rising from the waves, all beneath a professionally and socially.
tall cylindrical neck with wide opening.
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high, stopper See Issac Taylor Headland, Court Life in China, New York, Chicago,
Toronto, London and Edinburgh, 1909, page unknown, for a
$3,000 - 5,000 photograph of the Dowager Empress Cixi receiving the ladies of the
American Legation in Peking (Beijing) in 1903, including Dr. Miriam
1750-1830 攪色地套三色料「洪福高照」鼻煙壺一件 Sinclair Headland.

Provenance:
Reverend Isaac Taylor & Dr. Miriam Sinclair Headland Collection (1859-
1942), and thence by descent within family
Christie's New York, 15-16 March 2015, lot 3101

來源：
何德蘭教士及夫人Miriam Sinclair Headland教授醫師收藏 (1859-1942)
，后由家族傳承
佳士得，紐約，2015年3月15-16日，拍品號3101

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