AN ENAMELED MOLDED CLEAR GLASS BOTTLE

Details

AN ENAMELED MOLDED CLEAR GLASS BOTTLE
1760-1850

Of baluster shape, molded in high relief on each side with a heron or crested egret standing amidst large lotus pads, flowers and pods, and painted in two shades of green highlighted in black enameling, the flowerheads and birds painted white and with some pink shading, all on the clear glass ground, small air bubble at neck, small chips, stopper

Provenance

The Ko Family Collection
Sold Christie's London, June 14, 1971, (Part I), lot 4

Lot Essay

For another translucent glass bottle molded in relief and painted in enamels with a bird amidst magnolia bearing a guyuexuan mark see Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of The Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter, K.C.M.G., p. 106, fig. E.15. Both sides of the same bottle are also illustrated (in color) by Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Burghley House Collection, Stamford, England, 1989, Catalogue, fig. 61. Another related bottle in opaque white glass molded with lotus is also illustrated, fig. 54

See also Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, p. 77, fig. 105, for a blue glass overlay bottle carved with a similar scene