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Lot Essay
This bottle is an unusually bulbous and large version of a school of glass carving which typically produced smaller glass overlay bottles in this range of colors and style of carving. Many of this group exhibit chi dragons as decoration, suggesting that they may have been a mid-Qing Imperial group.
A related bottle of the smaller size, with similar floral decoration, from the Blanche B. Exstein Collection, was sold in these rooms, 21 March 2002, lot 49. Others are illustrated by Chang Lin-sheng, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, pp. 226-7, nos. 309-11, and 313.
A related bottle of the smaller size, with similar floral decoration, from the Blanche B. Exstein Collection, was sold in these rooms, 21 March 2002, lot 49. Others are illustrated by Chang Lin-sheng, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, pp. 226-7, nos. 309-11, and 313.