Lot 358
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A FINE AND RARE AMBER-OVERLAY GLASS BOTTLE

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A FINE AND RARE AMBER-OVERLAY GLASS BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY

Carved as an elephant wearing caparisons and a saddle cloth, the neck of the bottle forming a howdah rising from the saddle, the overlay of transparent pale amber tone over a snowstorm ground, stopper

Lot Essay

It is rare to find this model with a transparent amber overlay on a snowstorm ground
For a bottle with red overlay see Sotheby's, New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Mei Ling Collection, March 15, 1984, lot 49; and Robert W. L. Kleiner: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, pl. 76, for an opalescent yellow glass version