A FAMILLE ROSE PAINTED GLASS 'KATYDID' SNUFF BOTTLE AND SNUFF DISH

18TH CENTURY

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A FAMILLE ROSE PAINTED GLASS 'KATYDID' SNUFF BOTTLE AND SNUFF DISH
18TH CENTURY
The slender bottle is delicately painted to one side with a katydid standing on a large leafy radish, surrounded by blue chrysanthemum blooms. The other side is detailed with another katydid standing on a cabbage surrounded by pink chrysanthemum blooms on long leafy stems. The dish is decorated with a further katydid.
2¾ in. (7 cm.) high overall, stopper (2)

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With Spink & Son Ltd., London, 8 December 1960.
Property from an Important Private European Collection.

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The katydid, a relation to the grasshopper, is an auscpicious insect because its name, guoguo is close in pronunciation to the word for official. Katydid and chrysanthemum depicted together is a homophone for 'may you become an official of the first rank'.