A Transparent Red Overlay Transparent Mustard-Yellow Glass Bottle
A Transparent Red Overlay Transparent Mustard-Yellow Glass Bottle

1770-1830

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A Transparent Red Overlay Transparent Mustard-Yellow Glass Bottle
1770-1830
Of slender ovoid shape, carved through the red overlay with an oval panel to each side, one carved with a crane above a pavilion, the other with a bat above the sun setting behind waves, the clear mustard glass with air bubbles and some white inclusions, stopper
2in. (7.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

For a similar type of bottle, see Christie's, New York, 18 September 1997, lot 267.

For a blue overlay bottle of more rounded shape depicting a bat above the setting sun to one side, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, New York and Tokyo, 1993, vol. II, p. 632, no. 384

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