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Modern glass overlay bottles

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« on: January 21, 2014, 04:50:00 am »

Camphor glass is often described as 'snowflake' glass, and also sometimes as 'tapioca' glass. This last description seems to well fit the below bottle.

Overlay glass snuff bottle of flattened bladder shape with a flared neck, the red overlay on a 'tapioca' ground, carved with a magpie and plum blossom one side, melons and a butterfly on the reverse. Green jade stopper with a black collar.

Height without stopper:  4.7 cm.
Probably 1970s or 80s

The image of a magpie with plum blossoms is a popular Chinese rebus symbolizing happiness in all weathers, and can also represent concord and harmony, making it a suitable theme for a married couple, although that is more usually depicted as two birds. The melon with its many tendrils conveys the wish for 'fertility and continuing prosperity', while the butterfly is homophonic with the Chinese word for 'living to a great age'.
All in all, a lot of wishes crammed onto one small bottle!


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Collecting since 1971

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