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A GREEN AND YELLOW-OVERLAY TRANSPARENT MULBERRY-
RED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1770-1830
The bottle is carved overall with a leafy green vine bearing yellow
double gourds, all set against the mulberry-red bubble-suffused ground.
23 in. (5.9 cm.) high, glass stopper
$15,000-25,000
PROVENANCE:
The Mei Ling Collection; Sotheby's New York, 15 March 1984, lot 41.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
LITERATURE:
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R.
Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 60-61,
no. 17.
This bottle belongs to a small group of similar bottles characterized
by striking combinations of colors and delightful and fluent designs.
Dating to the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century this group
may be connected in some manner with the Yangzhou school. They
are usually of flattened spherical form and frequently decorated with
a design of the metamorphosis of the silkworm. A bottle with similar
decoration to the current bottle was sold in Important Chinese Snuff
Bottles from the J&J Collection, Part II, Christie's New York, 29 March
2006, lot 54, on which gourds of similar size are set on top of large
green leaves on a pink glass ground.

1770-1830年 透明紫紅地套黃綠玻璃瓜瓞綿綿鼻煙壺
來源:
Mei Ling珍藏, 紐約蘇富比, 1984年3月15日, 拍品編號41
何瑞秋珍藏, 紐約
出版:
何瑞秋, 《Rivers and Mountains Far from the World - The Rachelle R.
Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary》, 紐約, 1994年, 頁60-61,
編號17

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