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• Treasury 5, no. 1027
  
  白套棕色玻璃賞秋圖鼻煙壺
  揚州，1830-1890
  
  An inscribed olive-brown glass overlay 'Celebrating Autumn' snuff bottle
  
  Translucent olive-brown glass and white glass containing two distinct sandwiched layers of slightly clearer, milky glass; with a flat lip and recessed convex foot surrounded by a protruding footrim with a sloping inner edge; carved as a single overlay with, on one main side, a landscape scene with a boy flying a kite, two swallows, and three goats beside a blossoming tree, and on the other with flowering chrysanthemums and an orchid growing beside a perforated rock formation with two crabs, inscribed in relief seal script, jiaqing sanqiu ('Celebrating the Autumn')
  Probably Yangzhou, 1830-1890
  Height: 5.7 cm
  Mouth/lip: 0.58/1.43 cm
  Stopper: glass; vinyl collar
  
  Condition: one side of the foot possibly polished away to remove tiny chip; minute chips to the kite string towards the kite and the tip of the orchid leaves, and tiny chip to reclining goat's horn
  
  Provenance:
  Trojan Collection
  Robert Hall (1993)
  
  Published:
  Hall 1992, no. 2
  Kleiner 1995, no. 176
  Treasury 5, no. 1027
  
  Exhibited:
  British Museum, 1995
  
  This magnificent carving exhibits certain features found on the transcendent masterpiece of Sale 1, lot 119, made for Yangzhou resident Lei Peizhen (Li Weizhi; see Moss and Sargent 2011, p. 26 – 27) in 1879. These include similarly impressive use of shading of the overlay colour, employed here in the kite flier, who has been given a paler head and trousers in this way, and the tail of the goat beside him has also been made to stand out by attenuated carving of its rear. The two remaining goats are also skilfully emphasized by reducing the thickness of the bank on which they are reclining. On the other side, the natural rock sculpture constitutes one of many masterly renderings of this subject by this carver, exhibiting exquisite shading and an effective three-dimensional depiction, the more distant layers of piercing showing through the foreground plane. The shape of the inner footrim is almost certainly the result of the painstaking removal from the inner footrim of some tiny chips. It is evident that, prior to this minor surgery, the footrim was extremely well controlled and matched the overlay colour.
  
  白套棕色玻璃賞秋圖鼻煙壺
  
  白地套透亮棕色料，白玻璃挾有兩層稍微清一點的混濁玻璃；平唇，凸斂底，突出圈足，圈足內壁傾斜；一面刻兒童放風箏圖，圖中有三隻羊、兩個燕子；另一面刻菊芯、蘭花、螃蟹圖，題有篆體"佳慶三秋"四字
  擬屬揚州，1830-1890
  高﹕ 5.7 厘米
  口經/唇經： 0.58/1.43 厘米
  蓋： 玻璃；乙烯基座
  
  狀態敘述：圈足一面或許為了消除缺口而磨掉了，風箏線和蘭葉丈端呈微乎其微的缺口，臥羊一角有微小的缺口
  
  來源﹕
  特落伊珍藏
  羅伯特．霍爾 (1993)
  
  文獻﹕
  Hall 1992, 編號2
  Kleiner 1995, 編號176
  Treasury 5, 編號1027
  
  展覽﹕
  大英博物館，1995年6月～10月
  
  說明﹕
  這件傑出的雕品跟第一場拍賣會，拍賣品號 119 有些共同的特色。那件是1879年為揚州居民李培楨維之 (參閱 Moss and Sargent 2011, 頁 26 – 27) 。 套料運用明暗法，很多細節都雕得巧奪天工。圈足修正之前，顯然是控制的很好，顏色跟套料的顏色是一致的。
  
  
  
  

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Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art

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