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A brown overlay white glass snuff bottle A blue overlay white glass snuff bottle
Yangzhou School, 1800-1850 Yangzhou School, 1820-1880
Of slender rectangular form with rounded corners, waisted neck, flat Well-hollowed, the slender rectangular bottle with slopping shoulders,
lip, oval foot ring, applying a thin layer of green-tinged brown overlay, wide mouth, flat lip, low oval foot ring, the milky-white class overlaid
carved to one side with a figure holding a ruyi scepter suspending a with a thin layer of purplish-blue, delicately carved to either side with
double-happiness pendant, standing next to a deer stepping on a a light-hearted theme depicting playful animals under a gnarled tree
staff tied with a double-gourd and carrying a basket of peaches on rising behind dramatic rocks, the narrow sides with two faux animal
its back, with a bat in flight, the upper right carved with a cartouche mask-and-ring handles.
reading ‘jixiang’ (good omen), the verso depicting a figure pushing a 2 3/8in (6cm) high
cart with a banner and filled with gold ingots, the upper left with ji mark $1,500 - 2,500
in addition to three characters possibly representing a studio name,
flanked with two lion masks-and-ring handles. Provenance
2 9/16in (6.6cm) high Hugh Moss, Honolulu Convention, October 2010
$1,500 - 2,500
白地套紫藍料動物鋪首啣環鼻煙壺
Provenance
Asiantiques, September 1998
Carl Jack Smith

Compare to a similar glass bottle illustrated in The Art of the Chinese
Snuff Bottle, Moss, Graham, Tsang, Weatherhill, New York, 1993, Vol.
II, p. 647, no. 398.

揚州風格白地套棕色料福祿壽人物鼻煙壺

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