Details
AN UNUSUAL WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
1800-1900

Blown in the shape of a clenched hand, the flattened back of the fingers forming the foot, the wrist forming the neck of the bottle, some mouth nibbles
1¾in. (4.4cm.) high, stopper
Provenance
Gerd Lester Collection

Lot Essay

For a mottled green and white bottle, and almost a mirror of the present example, see Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Catalogue, London, June 1970, no. 226

For another brown glass bottle in the form of a closed fist, possibly made to imitate amber, see Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of the Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter, K. C. M. G., London, 1974, p. 65, no. G.30; and another sold Christie's, New York, The Reif Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, October 18, 1993, lot 207

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