TWO BLUE GLASS OVERLAY SNUFF BOTTLES, the first of tall flattened ovoid shape, carved through rich blue glass with a leaping carp exhaling a pavilion in a cloud of smoke, a diving crane and lotus, to an opaque white ground, 18th Century; the second of flattened spherical shape carved through blue glass with carp below constellations, a three-legged toad and crabs, to a snowstorm ground, both 18th/19th Century (2)

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TWO BLUE GLASS OVERLAY SNUFF BOTTLES, the first of tall flattened ovoid shape, carved through rich blue glass with a leaping carp exhaling a pavilion in a cloud of smoke, a diving crane and lotus, to an opaque white ground, 18th Century; the second of flattened spherical shape carved through blue glass with carp below constellations, a three-legged toad and crabs, to a snowstorm ground, both 18th/19th Century (2)

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