A YELLOW OVERLAY PINK-GROUND GLASS BOTTLE

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A YELLOW OVERLAY PINK-GROUND GLASS BOTTLE
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Of rounded shape, carved through the lemon-yellow overlay on each side with a phoenix standing on rockwork amongst peony and tree sprays, one side with the moon or sun amidst the clouds, minute chips, stopper

Lot Essay

For a similar overlay bottle, depicting mandarin ducks, see Sotheby's, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, April 24, 1989, lot 252, formerly in the collection of Edgardo Potonkian

For a bottle of similar design, but carved from yellow glass alone, see John Gilmore Ford, Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Edward Choate O'Dell Collection, no. 127