A SMALL FOUR-COLOR OVERLAY WHITE GLASS BOTTLE

1780-1860

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A SMALL FOUR-COLOR OVERLAY WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
1780-1860
Of ovoid form, carved through the overlays of red, green, pale yellow and sapphire-blue with a continuous scene of a single butterfly fluttering above leafy peonies growing from rockwork, stopper
1¾in. (4.4cm.) high

Lot Essay

For four bottles of equally high quality, still in the Imperial Collection, see Chang Lin-sheng, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, pp. 226 and 227, nos. 309-311 and 313.

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