A THREE-COLOR OVERLAY SNOWSTORM GROUND GLASS BOTTLE

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A THREE-COLOR OVERLAY SNOWSTORM GROUND GLASS BOTTLE
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Of flattened rounded shape, carved in high relief through the cherry-red, transparent lime-green and blue overlays with a mandarin duck on each side swimming amidst lotus below a bat on one side and another bird on the other (minute nibbles)--2¼in. (5.7cm.) high

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For a bottle of similar type, see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, Catalogue, fig. 313. Another of more elogated shape is illustrated, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World, The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 236-237, pl. 102

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