Lot 37
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A FINELY-CARVED RUBY AND SNOWSTORM OVERLAY GLASS BOTTLE VASE

Details
A FINELY-CARVED RUBY AND SNOWSTORM OVERLAY GLASS BOTTLE VASE
18TH CENTURY

The globular body raised on a separately anealed, flared, pedestal foot and surmounted by a thick-walled cylindrical neck heat-fused to the body, carved through the translucent claret-red overlay to the bubble-suffused, clear glass ground in deep relief with a pine-studded landscape scene of farmers and boy attendants on the body below a band of lappets on the shoulder, the neck decorated with birds alighting on and flying amidst jagged prunus branches below pendent blades on the neck
10in. (25.4cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the red overlay glass bottle vase with similar decoration and flared, pedestal foot, exhibited in The Robert H. Clague Collection: Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty, Phoenix Art Musuem, 1987, illustrated by Brown and Rabiner in the Catalogue, p. 30, no. 24