AN UNUSUAL AMBER GLASS BOTTLE

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AN UNUSUAL AMBER GLASS BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY

Naturalistically blown in the shape of a hand held in an unusual mudra, the thumb and fourth finger raised, the three central fingers pressed to the palm, the glass of opaque honey-brown tone, stopper

Lot Essay

For an almost identical example in mirror image see Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of The Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter, K.C.M.G., pp. 6 and 65, fig. G.30