Lot Essay
For a similar bottle painted with birds on an opaque turquoise glass see Christie's London, October 12, 1987, lot 282
For a similar example with two long-tailed birds amidst flowering branches, painted on an opaque brown glass and bearing a guyuexuan mark see Sotheby's New York, December 18, 1980, lot 34
For a black glass bottle decorated with long-tailed crested birds see Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 15 Oct-26 Nov, 1977, Catalogue, fig. 60. For other turquoise glass bottles depicting flowering branches see Christie's London, The Ko Family Collection, June 14, 1971, lot 44 and Sotheby's New York, November 22, 1988, lot 21 for an example formerly in the collection of A. Stempel exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Art
For a similar example with two long-tailed birds amidst flowering branches, painted on an opaque brown glass and bearing a guyuexuan mark see Sotheby's New York, December 18, 1980, lot 34
For a black glass bottle decorated with long-tailed crested birds see Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 15 Oct-26 Nov, 1977, Catalogue, fig. 60. For other turquoise glass bottles depicting flowering branches see Christie's London, The Ko Family Collection, June 14, 1971, lot 44 and Sotheby's New York, November 22, 1988, lot 21 for an example formerly in the collection of A. Stempel exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Art