1908
AN OPAQUE CINNABAR-RED AND WHITE OVERLAY OPAQUE BLACK GLASS BOTTLE

细节
AN OPAQUE CINNABAR-RED AND WHITE OVERLAY OPAQUE BLACK GLASS BOTTLE
YANGZHOU SCHOOL, 1800-1850

Of flattened spade shape, carved through the overlays in relief in a continuous scene with with a fish rising from waves on one side, vapor issuing from its mouth with a partially visible pavilion roof, and on the other with two cranes, one flying, the other standing amidst the frothy waves near the setting sun, all on the black glass ground, some partially visible under the more thinly-cut areas of white overlay, the oval foot ring cut from the white overlay, air bubble pinprick to mouth
2 1/8in. (5.4cm.) high, stopper
来源
Eric Young Collection

拍品专文

For another bottle of this school see Robert Kleinor, Chinese Snuff Bottles in The Collection of Mary and George Block, London 1995, p. 275, no. 82 where the author notes that this type of bottle "belongs to a distinctive sub-group of Yangzhou snuff bottles, all of which are carved in an unusually deep relief, often using the cinnabar-red overlay seen in this example. . . . They are usually carved with a double overlay of colour and are often characterized by carved billowing clouds (from the glass ground) around the shoulders." For another with similar iconography to one side, depicting a crane flying above waves and a setting sun, see Robert Kleinor, Ibid, p. 277, no. 183; for another using the same three colours but in negative to this example, i.e., with white ground and overlay of cinnabar-red and black, and also depicting a fish-dragon on its back rising from waves, see Robert W.L. Kleinor, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of John Aulli, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 29, no. 46.

For yet another bottle from the same school stylistically similar but depicting green and red overlay line on a beige ground from the Chicago Natural History Museum, see Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York and Tokyo, 1980, p. 76, no. 255