A TRANSPARENT-GREEN-OVERLAY TRANSPARENT-PINK GLASS BOTTLE

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A TRANSPARENT-GREEN-OVERLAY TRANSPARENT-PINK GLASS BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY

Of oviform shape, and well carved with archaistic bronze vessels on each side dividing slender handles formed as tripod vessels, stopper

Lot Essay

For a green-overlay on brown example see Sotheby's Hong Kong, Important Snuff Bottles from the Kaynes-Klitz Collection, Part II, October 30, 1990, lot 53

For a red example on a snowstorm ground see Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles ferom the Collection of The Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter, K.C.M.G., pp. 76-77, fig. G.65