A BLUE OVERLAY SEAL SCHOOL BOTTLE

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A BLUE OVERLAY SEAL SCHOOL BOTTLE
YANGZHOU, DATED AUTUMN DAY YIMAO YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1795 OR 1855, WITH SEAL OF SHAO NANWAN

Of flattened rounded shape, carved through the blue overlay on one side with a seated bull near a playful young boy and bird, an inscription and seal alongside, the reverse with a figure paddling a boat amidst lotus and butterflies, stopper

Lot Essay

For another blue overlay bottle from the same school, similarly depicting a figure paddling in a lotus pond, see Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Fernhill Park Collection, The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, 1991, Catalogue no. 204, p. 46

For a Yangzhou bottle with sepia overlay, depicting on one side a tethered bull, a boy and a bird (presumably a rebus), see Sotheby's, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Eric Young, Part IV, Hong Kong, October 28, 1993, lot 1055