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A PALE-GREEN OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1730-1770
The bottle is carved through transparent pale green overlay to the bubble-suffused ground on
one side with a duck swimming in a lotus pond, and with a carp leaping out of the pond to
grasp a water weed on the opposite side. The foot is formed by the stem of the lotus leaf that
encircles the lower portion of the bottle.
2¡ in. (6 cm.) high, glass stopper
$4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE:
Robert Hall, London, 2010.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5027.
The subject of a fsh with lotus forms the rebus meaning ‘[May you have] abundance year after year’.
The words for lotus (lian) and ducks (yazi) evoke the term lianjia which conveys a desire to be frst on
the list for the three-level (district, provincial and capital) civil service examinations in succession.
1730-1770年 雪霏地套透明綠玻璃「連年有餘」圖鼻煙壺
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