A TRANSPARENT GREEN-OVERLAY COFFEE-BROWN GLASS BOTTLE

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A TRANSPARENT GREEN-OVERLAY COFFEE-BROWN GLASS BOTTLE
1780-1850

Of rounded shape, delicately carved in relief on each side with a crab clutching at a grass spray amidst leafy foliage and lotus above water, minute neck nibble, stopper

Lot Essay

For an almost identical bottle in mirror image see Christie's London, The Ko Family Collection, June 18, 1973 (Part III), lot 80. It is possible that the original black and white illustration was transposed in the Ko catalogue and this is indeed the same bottle

For a very similar bottle see Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of the Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter, K.C.M.G., p. 82, fig. 6.79 and Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles IV, 1991, Catalogue no. 117