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A RARE AND SUPERB OPAQUE GREEN OVERLAY SEMI- For another example of this rare color combination of green on a dark
OPAQUE DARK VIOLET-BLUE 'SCHOLARS IN A LANDSCAPE' blue ground, see Robert W.L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the
BOTTLE Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1987, p. 83, no.
1770-1850 115 and also Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury
Of slightly bulbous spade shape, carved in a continuous scene through of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol.
a soft pea-green overlay with a scholar crossing a bridge near a rocky 5, Part 3, Hong Kong, 2002, pp. 576-577, no. 950, where it is noted
promontory with a simple thatched building amidst rocks, trees and that such spectacular bottles with highly unusual color combinations
plantain and continuing to the other side with a scholar seated in a were probably produced at the court during the mid-to-late Qianlong
small tiled-roof building with an attendant nearby sweeping the ground period and that their relative scarcity is puzzling.
near bamboo and pine, supported on a short green-overlay flat foot
ring and shallow convex blue glass base. For a red overlay black-ground glass bottle with a similar pine
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high, stopper landscape scene, see Robert Kleiner, Treasures from the Sanctum
of Enlightened Respect, Singapore, 1999, p. 130, no. 111, where
$12,000 - 18,000 comparison, with the design, is drawn with that found on lacquer
carving of the mid-Qing dynasty.
1770-1850 珍罕藍地套綠料刻高士山水鼻烟煙壺一件
For a single-color deep blue glass bottle carved in relief with a similar
Provenance: landscape scene and also dated to between 1770-1850, see Robert
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2012 Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5418 Bloch, British Museum, London, 1995, p. 226, no. 145.
Christie's New York, The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Part II, 16
March 2016, lot 563

來源：
莫士撝，香港，2012年
露芙及卡尔‧巴伦珍藏，Belmont，马萨诸塞州，編號5418
佳士得，紐約，露芙及卡尔‧巴伦珍藏，第二部分，2016年3月16日，
拍品號563

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