Lot Essay
For a bottle of pear shape depicting peony, but using similar pink and white glass, see John Gilmore Ford, Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Edward Choate O'Dell Collection, 1982, Catalogue, pp. 60-61, no. 146
Details
A WHITE-OVERLAY PINK AND WHITE MOTTLED GLASS BOTTLE
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Of flattened rounded shape, carved through the white overlay on each side with a long-tailed bird amidst prunus issuing from rockwork over the pink and white mottled ground, minute air bubbles to surface, minute chips, stopper
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Of flattened rounded shape, carved through the white overlay on each side with a long-tailed bird amidst prunus issuing from rockwork over the pink and white mottled ground, minute air bubbles to surface, minute chips, stopper
Provenance
Albert Pyke Collection, Los Angeles