A GREEN AND BROWN GLASS TABLE BOTTLE

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A GREEN AND BROWN GLASS TABLE BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY

Of flattened rounded shape, unusually carved through a transparent green overlay over an opaque coffee-brown ground with brushpots, censers, boxes and bowls of fruit on tiered stands below ribboned objects, the narrow sides carved with a vase issuing lotus to one side and a chilong clutching a dragon-headed stand to the other (small chips)--3¼in. (8.2cm.) high, stopper, box

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For another large table bottle in green and brown glass carved with sages in a bamboo grove, see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, April 29, 1992,
lot 417

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