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QING DYNASTY, 1760-1860
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A BLUE-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS ‘PHOENIX AND PEONY’ SNUFF BOTTLE
QING DYNASTY, 1760-1860
The bottle is carved through the blue overlay against the white ground depicting a phoenix perched next to a flowering peony bush on one side, the other side with a butterfly hovering above flowering bushes. Together with a blue-overlay on white glass snuff dish.
Bottle: 2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper;
Dish: 1 1/16 in. (3 cm.) long (2)
QING DYNASTY, 1760-1860
The bottle is carved through the blue overlay against the white ground depicting a phoenix perched next to a flowering peony bush on one side, the other side with a butterfly hovering above flowering bushes. Together with a blue-overlay on white glass snuff dish.
Bottle: 2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper;
Dish: 1 1/16 in. (3 cm.) long (2)
Provenance
Bottle: A Hong Kong private collection, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 25 November 2014, lot 1093
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Priscilla Kong