Lot Essay
Compare a blue overlay clear glass bottle of similar design illustrated by R. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, London, 1995, p. 274, no. 181.
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PROBABLY YANGZHOU, 1800-1880
Details
A RED OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS BOTTLE
Probably Yangzhou, 1800-1880
Of flattened, elongated ovoid form, well carved through the ruby-red overlay with a continuous scene of a figure in a boat floating in a lotus pond beneath bats, birds and a crescent moon, stopper
2½in. (6.2cm.) high
Probably Yangzhou, 1800-1880
Of flattened, elongated ovoid form, well carved through the ruby-red overlay with a continuous scene of a figure in a boat floating in a lotus pond beneath bats, birds and a crescent moon, stopper
2½in. (6.2cm.) high
Provenance
Arthur Gadsby Collection, Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 2 May 1991, lot 78.