A GREEN AND YELLOW-OVERLAY TRANSPARENT MULBERRY-RED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
A GREEN AND YELLOW-OVERLAY TRANSPARENT MULBERRY-RED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
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A GREEN AND YELLOW-OVERLAY TRANSPARENT MULBERRY-RED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

1770-1830

Details
A GREEN AND YELLOW-OVERLAY TRANSPARENT MULBERRY-RED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1770-1830
The bottle is carved overall with a leafy green vine bearing yellow double gourds, all set against the mulberry-red bubble-suffused ground.
2 5⁄16 in. (5.9 cm.) high, glass stopper
Provenance
The Mei Ling Collection; Sotheby's New York, 15 March 1984, lot 41.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
Literature
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 60-61, no. 17.

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Lot Essay


This bottle belongs to a small group of similar bottles characterized by striking combinations of colors and delightful and fluent designs. Dating to the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century this group may be connected in some manner with the Yangzhou school. They are usually of flattened spherical form and frequently decorated with a design of the metamorphosis of the silkworm. A bottle with similar decoration to the current bottle was sold in Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the J&J Collection, Part II, Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 54, on which gourds of similar size are set on top of large green leaves on a pink glass ground.

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