19th century
The pear-shaped bottle is carved through the snowflake layer to the ruby-red ground, on one side with a figure riding a donkey followed by an attendant carrying a prunus branch, the reverse with three figures standing near a hut. The narrow sides are decorated with ring handles.
5 cm high, rose quartz stopper
Provenance: The John and Gerda Reys Collection. Illustrated in the catalogue 'A Private Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles', Feng-Chun Ma Chinese and Japanese Art, Amsterdam 2016, No 3
Snuff bottles with an outer layer of ‘snowflake’ are relatively rare, and on this bottle the neck and lower sides are left completely covered by the snowflake layer to simulate a snowy landscape. Remarkable are the finely detailed faces of the figures. A closely related bottle is illustrated by H. Hui in ‘An Addicted Dedication, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Christopher Sin’s Collection’, Vol. I, Hong Kong, 2013, pl. 129.
The decoration on this bottle most probably represents two winter scenes from the episode ‘Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage’ from the novel ‘The Romance of the Three Kingdoms’, written by Luo Guanzhong in the fourteenth century.
S62 十九世紀 紅地套雪霏玻璃鼻煙壺
時代：19世紀。
特徵：梨形壺身，一側浮雕一人騎驢，另一側則有小屋與三人。紅地套雪霏設計十分罕見，使其浮雕圖案仿如雪景。
尺寸：高5公分；玫瑰石英頂蓋。
