Lot 55
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A FIVE-COLOR OVERLAY GLASS BOTTLE

Details
A FIVE-COLOR OVERLAY GLASS BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY

Of flattened rounded shape, delicately carved through an overlay of attractive semi-transparent leaf-green, pale pink, lemon-yellow, sea-blue and cherry-red glass to the snowstorm ground with an overall design of six chilongs, minute chips, stopper

Lot Essay

For another bottle with a bird and tree design in the same attractive semi-transparent overlay see Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, col. pl. 219 and also Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, col. pl. 96, for a similar bottle with nine writhing dragons