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Lot Essay
Although unsigned, this bottle can be confidently attributed to the master glass-carver Li Junting, who is believed to have worked at Yangzhou and was one of the most important and innovative of all Qing glass-carvers. This is a masterpiece from the transitional style between his earlier, high relief, usually double or triple plane wares, and his later, low-relief, painterly style. In this group, the artist often combined cameo overlay areas with extensive carving in the ground plane, with added incising of lines at the surface as a third design element. For a full discussion on the school, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Vol. 5, Glass, nos. 1020-46.
For other examples of overlay glass snuff bottles with relief carving in the ground color, see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles IV, no. 107; R. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, nos. 127 and 130; and B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, nos. 243, 248 and 250.
For other examples of overlay glass snuff bottles with relief carving in the ground color, see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles IV, no. 107; R. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, nos. 127 and 130; and B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, nos. 243, 248 and 250.