A Pale Green Glass Overlay Semi-Transparent White Bottle

YANGZHOU SEAL SCHOOL, 1780-1820, SEAL MEI HUA SAN LONG

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A Pale Green Glass Overlay Semi-Transparent White Bottle
Yangzhou Seal School, 1780-1820, seal mei hua san long
Of flattened rounded shape with a long slender neck and an oval foot, finely carved through a layer of pale pea-green glass with a flautist sitting on rockwork near plum blossoms below the inscription, the other side with two long-tailed birds above taihe rockwork, a small pavilion and a tree spray, delicately carved lion-mask fixed-ring handles on the shoulders, stopper
2.3/8in. (6.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

For another bottle of very similar type with two birds on rockwork to one side and similar handles to the narrow sides, also carved through a green overlay to an opaque white ground, see Sotheby's, New York, 1 June 1994, lot 627.

For another attributed to the hand of Li Junling and carved in a similar fashion, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, London, British Museum, 1995, Catalogue, p. 261. no. 173.

See, also, a ruby-red overlay on opaque white glass bottle illustrated by Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1987, p. 90, no. 126, also with a seal that mentions prunus blossom

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