Lot 495
495
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A TRANSPARENT RED-OVERLAY PALE SNOWSTORM-GROUND GLASS BOTTLE

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A TRANSPARENT RED-OVERLAY PALE SNOWSTORM-GROUND GLASS BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY

Of moon-flask shape, carved on each side through the red overlay with circular roundels, one depicting a bird flying above lotus, the other with a dragonfly above millet, with simple elephant-mask handles on the narrower sides, stopper

Lot Essay

This bottle appears to be a direct descendant of a type of bottle that Hugh Moss attributes to the later part of the 18th century. He illustrates two examples with similar circular or oval panels of decoration separated by lion-mask handles in The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, p. 606-608, nos. 364 and 365