1750-1850

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A FINE FIVE-COLOR OVERLAY 'SNOWSTORM' GLASS BOTTLE
1750-1850
Of elongated pear shape, carved through the overlays of green, blue, pink, red and yellow with a continuous scene of two crested birds amidst flowering peony rising from rockwork, stopper
2¾in. (6.8cm.) high

Provenance

Christie's, New York, 2 December 1993, lot 364.

Lot Essay

Compare, also, the six-color overlay glass bottle of different form but with similar carving, in the Princeton University Art Museum, illustrated by M. Hughes, The Blair Bequest, Maryland, 2002, p. 151, no. 189.

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