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Lot 158

Sale 6479 - Asian Works of Art
Mar 27, 2026 10:00AM ET
Live / New York
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$1,000 - 1,500

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Two Chinese Yangzhou School Glass Overlay Snuff Bottles, Second Half 19th Century
清晚期 涅白地套五色料鼻烟壺兩支
Second half of 19th Century

The first of flattened rectangular form, the shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck, the lip flat, the convex base surrounded by a small footrim, the milk-white glass with a five-color overlay of green, rose pink, light blue, brown and yellow, carved on both sides with cranes and bats flying above a vessel of flowers with ruyi handle, and a boy standing beside a flower-filled basket, the narrow sides with elongated mask and mock rings, signed “Made by Xiaomei, (Wang Xiaomei or Wang Su, a 19th century Yangzhou painter), the footrim carved from the rose-pink overlay.
The second of similar form, the shoulders sloping to a waisted neck, with a lipped rim, flat lip, slightly convex base and protruding oval footrim, the milk-white body with an overlay in brown and pink carved in low relief to depict, three goats among plants and a three-character inscription san yang tu in seal script, elongated mask-and-rings on the narrow sides, the lip rim and footrim also carved from the overlay
Height of largest without stopper 2 1/2 in., 6.4 cm.

Property from the Estate of Dr. Thomas A. Klein, MD., Sold to benefit the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

This lot is located in New York.

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