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A PALE BLUE-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
YANGZHOU, DATED TO THE AUTUMN OF RENWU (1882)
The bottle is delicately carved through the translucent pale blue overlay to the milky glass
bottle with a continuous outdoor scene containing a crane clutching a branch of lingzhi
fungus in fight above a scholar on a bridge, and a fgure in a boat transporting an ox, with
a pavilion and pine tree in the foreground. A dated inscription renwu qiuri zuo (‘made in
autumn of the year renwu’), is on the shoulder.

2Ω in. (6.3 cm.) high, glass stopper
$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE

Robert Kleiner, London, 2002.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3349

EXHIBITED

Corning, New York, Corning Museum of Glass, 2007-2008.
Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection,
23-26 September 2008.
壬午年（1882） 揚州作白地套藍玻璃松鶴延年圖鼻煙壺

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