A GLASS-SLIP-DECORATED GLASS BOTTLE

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A GLASS-SLIP-DECORATED GLASS BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY

Of melon shape, slip decorated with a pea-green glass leafy tendril and a butterfly, the opaque white ground with russet inclusions to imitate nephrite (some losses to slip decoration and associated incised decoration to the ground)--1 15/16in. (4.9cm.) high, stopper

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Fruit-shaped bottles in glass are rare. For two examples of finger citron, see Humphrey K.F. Hui and Christopher C. H. Sin, An Imperial Qing Tradition, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 115, pl. 141, similarly slip-decorated with trailing stems; and a transparent lime-yellow glass example in this catalogue, lot 1

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