Lot Essay
The imagery of cats and butterflies on this bottle can be interpreted as the birthday wish: "May you live into your seventies and eighties." See, T. Bartholomew in Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art, San Francisco, 2006, p. 173.
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POSSIBLY THE STEVENS DEER MASTER, OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1750-1850
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A CARVED CAMEO AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
POSSIBLY THE STEVENS DEER MASTER, OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1750-1850
The bottle is carved on one side using the whitish and beige inclusions with a flowering prunus tree and a lotus plant flanking a duck swimming in waves towards the base. The reverse is carved above the base with a cat crouching on a rock as it stalks a butterfly that appears on the shoulder above.
2 in. (5.1 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
POSSIBLY THE STEVENS DEER MASTER, OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1750-1850
The bottle is carved on one side using the whitish and beige inclusions with a flowering prunus tree and a lotus plant flanking a duck swimming in waves towards the base. The reverse is carved above the base with a cat crouching on a rock as it stalks a butterfly that appears on the shoulder above.
2 in. (5.1 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
Provenance
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
Literature
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 94-95, no. 34.
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The imagery of cats and butterflies on this bottle can be interpreted as the birthday wish: "May you live into your seventies and eighties." See, T. Bartholomew in Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art, San Francisco, 2006, p. 173.