A TURQUOISE-GREEN OVERLAY SNOWSTORM-GROUND GLASS BOTTLE

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A TURQUOISE-GREEN OVERLAY SNOWSTORM-GROUND GLASS BOTTLE
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Carved in relief with a continuous scene of a praying mantis amidst grapevine on one side and a cricket amidst grapevine on the other, the foot formed from trailing foliage, chips, stopper

Lot Essay

For a bottle with green overlay on a blue ground depicting a similar subject see Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, col. pl. 115; and another, illustrated in Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Douglas Johnston and Other Collections, The Chinese Porcelain Co., Catalogue, col. pl. 9; and for another blue overlay snowstorm glass bottle see Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, col. pl. 191