Lot 452
452
ANOTHER PROPERTY
A RED AND BLUE OVERLAY GLASS BOTTLE

Details
A RED AND BLUE OVERLAY GLASS BOTTLE
1800-1850

Of flattened oviform shape, carved on the main sides with descending carp amidst marine fronds, and on the narrow sides with one ascending and one descending fish amidst further lotus and fronds in deep blue glass, stopper
Provenance
The Bellis Collection
Literature
Robert W. L. Kleiner, The Bellis Collection, Card Catalogue no. 14

Lot Essay

For another red and blue overlay bottle, depicting sprays of lotus and prunus and formerly in the Stempel Collection, see Sotheby's, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, June 7, 1990, lot 96; and for another, depicting carp, see Sotheby's, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, April 29, 1992, lot 331