Lot Essay
For another red glass overlay bottle depicting a crab grasping a plant see Helen White, Snuff Bottles from China, The Victoria & Albert Museum Collection, pp. 190-191, pl. 87, no. 2
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A RED OVERLAY SEMI-TRANSPARENT GLASS BOTTLE
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Of flattened pear shape, the overlay carved through to the semi-transparent, milky glass ground with a carp jumping clear of water on one side and a crab clutching a lotus on the other, minute neck chip
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Of flattened pear shape, the overlay carved through to the semi-transparent, milky glass ground with a carp jumping clear of water on one side and a crab clutching a lotus on the other, minute neck chip