Lot Essay
For another bottle in green overlay depicting a chilong coiling through a bi disc see Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, p. 76, fig. 103
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A TRANSPARENT-RED-OVERLAY SNOWSTORM-GROUND GLASS BOTTLE
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Of rounded rectangular shape, delicately carved on each side with a chilong coiling through a bi disc divided by a further chilong on each of the narrow sides, stopper
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Of rounded rectangular shape, delicately carved on each side with a chilong coiling through a bi disc divided by a further chilong on each of the narrow sides, stopper