Lot 354
354
ANOTHER PROPERTY
A FOUR-COLOR OVERLAY GLASS BOTTLE

Details
A FOUR-COLOR OVERLAY GLASS BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY

Of ovoid shape, carved through semi-transparent overlays of red, green, amber and blue to the semi-transparent, milky ground with a dragonfly and butterflies amidst beet and aubergine sprays above rockwork, stopper

Lot Essay

For bottles of almost identical shape and same use of colors, including amber glass insects on the sides, see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, Catalogue, col. pl. 309, and also Sotheby's, New York, November 22, 1988, lot 205