A TRANSPARENT-RED-OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS BOTTLE

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A TRANSPARENT-RED-OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS BOTTLE
1790-1830

Of small rounded shape, interestingly carved as a fish playfully rising near a lotus pad, the head rising on one side of the bottle and the tail descending on the other, minute rim nibble, stopper

Lot Essay

For a bottle of similar design, but using pink and green overlays on an opaque white ground, see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles IV, 1991, Catalogue, no. 122