A PALE TURQUOISE OVERLAY OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE

1770-1830, YANGZHOU SEAL SCHOOL

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A PALE TURQUOISE OVERLAY OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
1770-1830, Yangzhou Seal School
Of flattened pear shape, delicately carved through a pale turquoise overlay with butterflies and loose orchid sprays around the body, one side with the seal Zhenwan, stopper
22in. (5.25cm.) high

Provenance

Eric Young Collection
Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 28 October 1993, lot 1047
Robert Hall, London, 1995

Lot Essay

The seal mark Zhenwan can be read as "Treasures for Appreciation."
A similar bottle of more slender shape with a seal reading Jiaxing, (Good fortune) was illustrated by Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles IV, London, 1991, p. 114, no. 113.

For another example from the Alex S. Cussons Collection see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 3 May 1995, lot 381.

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