Fine Asian Art - 20th May 2025

Lot 21

A CHINESE SAPPHIRE-BLUE OVERLAY GLASS ‘LONGEVITY’ SNUFF BOTTLE

Estimate £2,000 - £3,000

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Description

A CHINESE SAPPHIRE-BLUE OVERLAY GLASS ‘LONGEVITY’ SNUFF BOTTLE
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Attributed to the Imperial Beijing glassworks, the slender milky-white body decorated with blue glass overlay of blossoming lotus beneath a crane grasping a tally in its beak, the reverse depicts a carp exhaling swirling clouds that support a pavilion on the Island of the Immortals, surrounded by three bats, 8cm.

Provenance: from the Ramfield Collection, purchased from Robert Kleiner.

Cf. Christie's New York, 15th March 2017, lot 465 for an ochre-overlay white glass snuff bottle with a similar design.

十八/十九世紀 涅白地藍料海屋添壽圖鼻煙壺
來源：Ramfield收藏，購於Robert Kleiner。