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A Beijing five-colour overlay glass snuff bottle
carved in dark green, lime green, iron-red, yellow and brown on an opaque white ground with a butterfly in flight above a cat on rockwork amongst peony flowers and leaves, green harstone stopper -- 2in. (6.4cm.) high, iron-red three-character mark to base, 19th Century. See Colour Plate 28.
carved in dark green, lime green, iron-red, yellow and brown on an opaque white ground with a butterfly in flight above a cat on rockwork amongst peony flowers and leaves, green harstone stopper -- 2in. (6.4cm.) high, iron-red three-character mark to base, 19th Century. See Colour Plate 28.