Lot 313
313
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A PAIR OF PORCELAIN FISH-SHAPED BOTTLES

Details
A PAIR OF PORCELAIN FISH-SHAPED BOTTLES
19TH/20TH CENTURY

The fish naturalistically molded with fan tails flicked to one side of the scaly bodies, the eyes bulging and the bottle neck forming the wide open mouth, one stopper (2)

Lot Essay

For two identical bottles see Sotheby's, New York, April 6, 1990, lot 24; Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles: 5, 1969, fig. 47; and for a bottle painted in iron-red and gilt see Sotheby's, New York, November 22, 1988, lot 264