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A GREEN-OVERLAY PINK GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1770-1840
The translucent deep-green overlay is carved through to the translucent dark pink body on
one side with a scene of a scholar in a pavilion and a fgure arriving with a goose, the reverse
with a scholar and attendant beneath a large pine tree with a crane fying overhead.

2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper
$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE

Robert Hall, London, 2003.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3864.

EXHIBITED

Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection,
23-26 September 2008.

The current bottle may have been created to be presented as a birthday gift. The crane
and pine together represent longevity. According to Terese Tse Bartholomew in Hidden
Meanings in Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 2006, p. 180, the crane (he) and pine (song) combine
to convey the message “May you enjoy a life as long as that of the pine and crane” (songhe
changchun). The imagery can also represent a husband and wife and the wish for their
longevity together, just as the crane and the pine persevere together. Alternatively, it
could also be seen as a birthday wish to a ruler, as the attendant captures the crane for the
elder fgure to present to the oficial seated inside the pavilion.
1770-1840年 粉紅地套綠玻璃松鶴延年圖鼻煙壺

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