MAGPIES & PLUM BLOSSOMS

This SPARKLE by KAREN CHAN x HKMoA original pattern is inspired by the Famille Rose Two Color Overlay Magpie & Plum Blossom Motif (胭脂水地套二色玻璃刻喜雀梅花圖) snuff bottle in HKMoA’s priceless “Fuyun Xuan Collection” of snuff bottles. A plum branch, a magpie’s call, a stroke of spring – this design distills the timeless wish and blessing encoded in this Qing dynasty snuff bottle, with a magpie alighting on a plum branch symbolizing “joy rising to the eyebrows” (喜上眉梢).
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This SPARKLE by KAREN CHAN x HKMoA original design renders the bottle’s form in translucent peach-pink and emerald, scattering them like petals across the composition; each vessel cradles the classic magpie-and-plum motif, now abstracted into dappled light, with ruby red and emerald green symbolizing riches and prosperity...
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Famille Rose Two Color Overlay Magpie & Plum Blossom Motif
(胭脂水地套二色玻璃刻喜雀梅花圖)
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Glass; of pear shape, on the rouge colored-body is overlaid in black with magpies and leafy twigs while the plum blossoms are in red. The depiction is a continuous pictorial composition covering all around the entire surface.
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Height: 6.2cm
1780-1880
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As evident on the treatment of the neck, it can be ascertained that the bottle blank is of the sandwich glass type, having a layer of transparent coating wrapping over a rouge-colored core. The motif of magpies and plum trees is the popular auspicious omen of “having happiness rising to the eyebrows (喜上眉稍).
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*香港藝術館藏品 This collection is collaborated by the Hong Kong Museum of Art and SPARKLE COLLECTION / SPARKLE by KAREN CHAN.

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