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A GREEN-AND-WHITE OVERLAY PINK GLASS BOTTLE

Details
A GREEN-AND-WHITE OVERLAY PINK GLASS BOTTLE
1800-1850

Of rounded shape, carved in high relief with a hawk below pine and rockwork on each side, minute nibbles--2 1/16in. (5.2cm.) high, stopper
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, September 29, 1977, lot 1 ("Formerly in the Collection of an Eastern Museum")

Lot Essay

For very similar bottles see The Au Hang Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 1993, pp. 66-67, no. 78; Sotheby's London, 24 April 1989, lot 291; and Humphrey K. F. Hui and Christopher C. H. Sin, An Imperial Qing Tradition, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 129, no. 160

For another, carved with a qilin on a red rather than pink ground, see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, p. 228, no. 317; and another included in the exhibition, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Douglas, Johnston and Other Collections, The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, 1992, Catalogue, p. 13, no. 16