A RED OVERLAY SNOWSTORM GLASS BOTTLE
A RED OVERLAY SNOWSTORM GLASS BOTTLE

1770-1850

Details
A RED OVERLAY SNOWSTORM GLASS BOTTLE
1770-1850
Of bulbous pear shape, carved through a rich red overlay with three archaistic coiling chilong around the body on a snowstorm ground, stopper
2in. (5cm.) high
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 21 January 1982, lot 23

Lot Essay

For a similar example, see Raymond Li, A Glossary of Chinese Snuff Bottle Rebus, Hong Kong, 1976, p. 10, fig. 5, where the author notes that this is a rebus for the "happiness of the whole Royal Family."

A less rounded example is illustrated by Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles IV, London, 1991, p. 100, no. 99.

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