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
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