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AN OPAQUE CERULEAN-BLUE OVERLAY TRANSPARENT At the time of the 1972 sale at Christie's in London, the bottle had an
MISTY GLASS 'NOBLE BIRDS' BOTTLE ill-fitting rose quartz stopper, since replaced with the present example.
Attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing, 1760-1820 The anonymous sale was a huge success, and this particular bottle
Of large, elongated pear shape, carved through the opaque sky-blue was one of only nine bottles illustrated in the color on just one page
overlay to the primarily clear glass ground beneath with a regal phoenix designated for the rare color image.
with head held aloft standing on rockwork that rises to each of the
narrow sides with bamboo and lingzhi to one edge and peony to the The combination of a hawk and a phoenix is an unusual but successful
other, the scene continues to the other main side with a majestic long- one. The phoenix, fenghuang, is an explicit emblem of the Empress.
tailed hawk standing on one leg amidst gnarled pine branches and The hawk, ying represents strength, which combined with the pine tree
watching a smaller bird flying beneath, the clear glass turning opaque can imply a wish for strength and a long life.
at the cylindrical neck and wide opening, all supported on a rounded
blue overlay oval foot ring, with shallow clear glass base. For another blue overlay bottle, of rectangular form, with a phoenix set
3 1/4in (8.3cm) high, stopper amongst bamboo to one side, and a crane on rockwork to the other,
that certainly bears stylistic similarities, in particular the movement,
$6,000 - 9,000 within the design, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the
Collection of Mary and George Bloch, British Museum, London, 1995,
1760-1820 霧白地套天藍色料刻鳳凰雄鷹圖鼻煙壺一件 p. 235, no. 152.
或爲宮廷作坊，北京

Provenance:
Christie's London, 9 October 1972, A fine Collection of Chinese Snuff
Bottles (The Property of a Lady), lot 46
Hugh Moss, London, 1972
Sara Jo and Arthur Kobacker Collection, Ohio
Robert Hall, London, 2010
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2011
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5174
Christie's New York, The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, 16
September 2015, lot 305

來源：
佳士得，倫敦，1972年10月9日，《A fine Collection of Chinese Snuff
Bottles》（女士珍藏），拍品號46
莫士撝，倫敦，1972年
Sara Jo及Arthur Kobacker收藏，俄亥俄
Robert Hall，倫敦，2010年
莫士撝，香港， 2011
露芙及卡尔‧巴伦珍藏，Belmont，马萨诸塞州，編號5174
佳士得，紐約，露芙及卡尔‧巴伦珍藏，2015年9月16日，拍品號305

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