Lot 431
431
A GRISAILLE-DECORATED FISH-SHAPED BOTTLE

Details
A GRISAILLE-DECORATED FISH-SHAPED BOTTLE
19TH/20TH CENTURY

The fish naturalistically modeled with fan tail flicked to one side of the scaly body, the eyes bulging and the bottle neck forming the wide-open mouth, small interior neck chip, stopper

Lot Essay

For identical models of this bottle see Christie's New York, June 3, 1993, lot 313; Sotheby's New York, April 6, 1990, lot 24; and Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles, no. 5, 1969, fig. 47. This, however, appears to be the only published example en grisaille