A RED-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS 'DOUBLE-GOURD' SNUFF BOTTLE
1780-1860
细节
A RED-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS 'DOUBLE-GOURD' SNUFF BOTTLE
1780-1860
The transparent ruby-red glass overlay is carved through to the milky-white ground with a continuous design of double-gourds growing on curling vines amongst flat, circular leaves, raised on three of the gourds forming the feet.
2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) high, glass stopper
来源
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1997. Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2531.
For a very similar bottle see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 5, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2002, pp. 483-485, no. 901.