AN OPAQUE BLACK-AND-WHITE-OVERLAY SNOWSTORM-GROUND GLASS BOTTLE

Details
AN OPAQUE BLACK-AND-WHITE-OVERLAY SNOWSTORM-GROUND GLASS BOTTLE
1820-1880

Of moonflask shape, carved on one side with a deer beneath pine and a crescent moon, and on the other with a crane below pine, branch chips, stopper
Provenance
Mrs. Elmer A. Claar, Chicago
Sold Parke Bernet Galleries, December 2, 1969 (Part One), lot 8

Lot Essay

For another black overlay example depicting a very similar scene see Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of The Rt. Hon The Marquess of Exeter, K.C.M.G., p. 92, fig. G108. The reverse side is illustrated by Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Burghley House Collection, Stamford, England, 1989, Catalogue, fig. 31

For another similar example see Sotheby's New York, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Paula Mallett, December 2, 1985, lot 19