A FINE TRANSPARENT RED OVERLAY SNOWSTORM-GROUND BOTTLE

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A FINE TRANSPARENT RED OVERLAY SNOWSTORM-GROUND BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY

Of flattened oviform shape, carefully carved with a continuous scene of two four-clawed dragons contesting a flaming pearl, one of the dragons rising from waves at the foot, the neck wide, stopper

Lot Essay

For a bottle of slightly less elongated shape but carved on one side with a similar vigorous dragon, and for a discussion of the dragon in overlay snuff bottles, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham, Ken Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, pp. 599-601, no. 360