拍品 299
299
A DARK GREEN OVERLAY PINK GLASS BOTTLE

1800-1850, YANGZHOU SCHOOL

细节
A DARK GREEN OVERLAY PINK GLASS BOTTLE
1800-1850, Yangzhou School
Of flattened tapering baluster shape, carved through a semi-opaque dark green overlay with a lady and gentleman on one side standing under pine, she has a dream vapor rising from her head unusually depicting a spider, and on the other with immortal warriors amidst clouds and rockwork, the narrow sides with lion-mask and elongated fixed-ring handles, stopper
26in. (6.5cm.) high, stand

拍品专文

Spiders are seldom seen on snuff bottles, but when found in Chinese literature are a good omen. For one other bottle depicting a spider see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J and J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 641, no. 392