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.

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

The first acquired from Sotheby’s New York, October 3, 1980, lot 2

The second was acquired from Doyle New York, July 23, 2020, lot 101.

來源：

Thomas Klein醫生遺產，拍賣所得歸Jefferson醫院。

左：購自紐約蘇富比1980年10月3日專場第2號。

右：購自紐約Doyle拍賣行2020年7月23日專場101號。

湯姆·克萊因醫生收藏鼻烟壺逾四十年。他畢業於哈佛大學與羅徹斯特大學，曾於美國陸軍擔任婦產科醫師並出任高階領導職務。其後於傑佛遜醫院服務三十年，2023年以婦產科副主任身分榮退，期間培養了五百餘名住院醫師與無數醫學生。他的學術與臨床精神延續於以其名設立的「Thomas A. Klein 講席教授」，本場拍賣所得亦歸於傑佛遜醫院。

Tom Klein’s life was shaped by two enduring passions: medicine and the collecting of snuff bottles. While these worlds rarely intersected, both were marked by the same qualities—quiet dedication, discernment, and grace.

Tom was unfailingly modest–when the I.C.S.B.S. held its convention in Philadelphia, he entrusted me to select bottles from his collection for the exhibition “Embers of the East,” a task made challenging by the number of exceptional bottles. His passion for collecting was thoughtful rather than acquisitive, grounded in appreciation rather than display. These were his companions—objects he handled, studied, and loved for over 40 years.

Professionally, Tom enjoyed an equally distinguished career. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Rochester, he served as an obstetrician-gynecologist in the U.S. Army in senior leadership roles. He spent thirty years at Jefferson Hospital, retiring in 2023 as Vice Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, having trained more than five hundred residents and countless medical students. His legacy continues through the Thomas A. Klein, MD Professorship in Quality and Safety in Women’s Health.

To those who knew him as a collector, these accomplishments mirrored the man I admired: principled, generous, and exacting without pretension. Over the 35 years I had the privilege to know him, he was a gentleman in the most absolute sense of the word. Though he is deeply missed, his presence endures in the objects he cherished and in our shared love of snuff bottles.

Clare Chu

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

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

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

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