[老琉璃图鉴]十九世纪白地套褐料仿补钉纹老琉璃鼻烟壶

A brown overlay white glass rivets snuff bottle 19th century
19th century
The bottle of compressed globular form rising to a tall cylindrical neck ,carved in shallow relief on the milk-white ground and shaded in brown overlay with small segments simulating rivet repairs on porcelain ,the sides with mask-and-ring handles ,jadeite stopper. 5.6cm (2 3/8in) high (2).
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十九世纪白地套褐料仿补钉鼻烟壶
Provenance: Bob C.Stevens
Sotheby’s London ,24 April 1989 ,lot 23
An Asian private collection of snuff bottles
Published and Exhibited: Mikimoto Hall ,Tokyo ,October 1978 ,Catalogue no.56
来源： Bob Stevens先生旧藏
1989年4月24日于伦敦苏富比拍卖，拍品23号
亚洲私人藏鼻烟壶珍品
展览： 1978年10月于东京Mikimoto Hall展出，图录编号23
This unusual bottle is decorated with simulated rivets used to repair cracked porcelain wares. In addition ,the nine rivets depicted on the bottle may underscore a pun wishing for a long line of sons. The number nine in China is also symbolic of infinity ,partly because it was the product of three times three ,the most basic unit of three being Heaven ,Earth and Man ,and partly because the word for nine is homophone with the word for eternity.
According to Schuyler Cammann ,the nine rivets depicted on the bottle may also represent the ceremonial Nine Tripods owned by the legendary Emperor Yu ,underscoring the Qing dynasty’s wish to restore the glorious culture of the past.
A related brown overlay white glass bottle ,1760-1860 ,decorated with nine rivets ,is illustrated by H.Moss in The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle ,Vol.2 ,New York ,1993 ,p.637 ,pl.388.