1770-1830

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A WELL CARVED BLUE OVERLAY GOLD-SPLASHED GLASS BOTTLE
1770-1830
Of flattened, ovoid form, well carved on either side through the sapphire-blue overlay to the gold-flecked, color-splashed ground with a phoenix perched on a rocky outcropping before a blossoming branch of camellia, stopper
2 3/8in. (6cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired in Beijing between 1945 and 1950.

Lot Essay

Compare the blue overlay glass bottle with similar ground of mottled colored splashes, but decorated with carp, illustrated by M.C. Hughes, The Blair Bequest: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, 2002, p. 130, no. 153.

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