A Four-Colour Overlay Clear Glass Bottle

1770-1850

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A Four-Colour Overlay Clear Glass Bottle
1770-1850
Of pear shape, carved through overlays of blue, red, green and yellow to a translucent ground with a fan-tail fish with fronds to each side, the glass suffused with tiny bubbles, stopper
26in. (6.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

For another red overlay opaque white-ground bottle carved with a single fish to each side holding a stem of lotus, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, vol. II, p. 624, no 377

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