Lot 369
369
A RED-OVERLAY OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE

Details
A RED-OVERLAY OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Cut through the red overlay with a design of a single leafy gourd vine spreading around the body from the shoulder on one side, with three gourds cleverly forming the tripod feet, and with two hovering butterflies on the reverse, small chip to tendril, stopper

Lot Essay

For a similar bottle see Sotheby's, New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Kardos Collection, July 1, 1985, lot 162; and Helen White, Snuff Bottles from China, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, 1992, pl.77, no. 1