Lot 485
485
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A SEAL SCHOOL BLUE OVERLAY OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE

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A SEAL SCHOOL BLUE OVERLAY OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
YANGZHOU, DATED SPRING DAY YICHOU YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1805

Of flattened rounded shape, carved on one side with two figures in a boat passing near a pine tree with a crane above, the other side with a cat looking at two butterflies, three birds flying nearby and the four-character inscription, Yichou chunri, stopper

Lot Essay

For a five-color overlay seal school bottle similarly depicting a cat watching two butterflies with birds nearby see Christie's, London, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Estate of Edmund F. Dwyer, October 12, 1987, lot 9