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A JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE, QING DYNASTY, 清十九世紀 翠玉鼻煙壺 A CARVED AMBER ‘CAT AND BUTTERFLY’ 清十八 / 十九世紀 琥珀雕耄耋圖鼻烟壺
19TH CENTURY SNUFF BOTTLE, QING DYNASTY, 18TH /
stopper (2) 出版： 19TH CENTURY 出版：
Height 1⅞ in., 4.8 cm 許建勳，《An Addicted Dedication: Chinese Snuff Height 2 in., 5 cm 許建勳，《An Addicted Dedication: Chinese Snuff
bottles Christopher Sin’s Collection》，卷一，香 bottles Christopher Sin’s Collection》，卷一，香
LITERATURE LITERATURE
港，2013年，圖版62 港，2013年，圖版317
Humphrey Hui, An Addicted Dedication: Chinese Snuff bottles Humphrey Hui, An Addicted Dedication: Chinese Snuff bottles
Christopher Sin’s Collection, vol. I, Hong Kong, 2013, pl. 62. Christopher Sin’s Collection, vol. I, Hong Kong, 2013, pl. 317.
⊖ $ 5,000-7,000 The quality of the material and the carving on this imperial
snuff bottle is exceptional. The scene of the squirrel with
grapes refers to the rebus zaishang yipin, meaning ‘to taste
once more’, which is a pun for ‘to be promoted to a higher
rank’, a phrase that has the same pronunciation in Chinese.
The scene of the cat and the butterfly has the auspicious
connotation of living to the age of seventy or eighty. See
a closely related snuff bottle from the Collection of Bruce
Dayton and Ruth Strickler Dayton sold in these rooms,
28th September 2021, lot 802.
⊖ $ 5,000-7,000

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