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A RED-OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1790 SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED YIWEI YEAR (1895)

The bottle is fnely carved through the thick red overlay to the Decorated on the interior with a continuous scene of thirty magpies
bubble-suffused ground with a continuous scene of the ‘Eight Horses perched on and fying about a prunus tree with delicate blossoms.
of Mu Wang’ beneath billowing clouds. 2 √ in. (7.2 cm.) high, glass stopper
2√ in. (7.3 cm.) high, amber stopper
$2,500-3,500
$1,600-2,400
PROVENANCE:
PROVENANCE:
Robert Kleiner, London, 2009.
Robert C. Eldred & Co., East Dennis, Massachusetts, 25 August Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4970.
1994.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1492. The imagery of magpies on prunus branches was a popular motif on
Qing-dynasty snuff bottles. The magpie is the bird of happiness and the
1750-1790年 雪霏地套紅玻璃「穆王八駿」圖鼻煙壺 messenger of good news. A magpie on prunus branches forms the rebus,
“happiness up to one’s eyebrows.”

For another inside-painted snuff bottle by Ye Zhongsan decorated with
this theme, see D. Low, More Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened
Respect, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 349, no. 314, where the author notes that
thirty magpies may also signify good wishes for every day of the month.

乙未年（1895） 葉仲三作「喜上眉梢」圖玻璃內畫鼻煙壺

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