Page 80 - The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part I

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A BLUE-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
YANGZHOU SCHOOL, 1860-1890

The bottle is carved through semi-opaque blue overlay to the
translucent white ground on one main side with a scene of a couple
seated at a table while two boys play nearby, one boy holding a long
staff. The other side is decorated with a medallion formed by an
archaistic inscription taken from the poem “The Riverside Village”
by the Tang poet Du Fu. Each narrow side has a delicate mask and
ring handle.
2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, jadeite stopper, mother-of-pearl fnial

$3,500-4,500

PROVENANCE:

Robert Kleiner, London, 2008.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4729.

The inscription can be translated, “My wife draws lines on paper to make a
chessboard; My son knocks a needle into a fshing hook,” and corresponds
to the fgural scene depicted on the other side of the bottle.

For a related red-overlay white glass snuff bottle with fgural scene on one
side and circular inscription on the other see lot 227.

1860-1890年
揚州作涅白地套藍玻璃「畫紙敲針」圖詩文鼻煙壺

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