A Transparent Red Overlay Bubble-Suffused Glass Bottle
A Transparent Red Overlay Bubble-Suffused Glass Bottle

1770-1830

Details
A Transparent Red Overlay Bubble-Suffused Glass Bottle
1770-1830
Of flattened pear shape, carved through the overlay in fine details in a continuous scene with the animals of the zodiac in a rocky pine landscape, no stopper
3.1/8in. (8cm.) high

Lot Essay

For two red overlay bubble-suffused bottles of similar type but different decoration, see Christie's, New York, The Reif Collection, 18 October 1993, lots 177 and 178; and another illustrated by Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, London, 1987, p. 87, no. 121.

For a porcelain example with a full discussion of the animals of the zodiac, see Rachelle R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far from the World, New York, 1994, pp. 176-177, no. 75

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