Fortunate Career

Probably Imperial, 1780-1860
Height: 5 cm
Mouth/lip: .5/1.1 cm
Stopper: jadeite

Provenance:
Asian Art Studio, Los Angeles, California, 2006.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4340.
Christie’s, New York, 16 September 2015, lot 273

Exhibited:
Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The
Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.

 

Transparent ruby-red and  bubble-suffused and white flecked colourless glass; with a flat lip, convex foot and convex footrim; carved as a single overlay with a circular panel on each side made up of the elements of the design, one with the rising sun with an upside down bat at the top above three rocks rising from waves, the other as a peach on a leafy branch, also with a formalized bat above and wves below, the narrow sides with mask and ring handles.

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