Lot Essay
For a Yangzhou bottle of very similar shape and semi-opaque white overlay on a transparent red ground, formerly in the Marian Meyer Collection, and depicting a cat on one side and a cockerel in a garden on the other see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles II, Catalogue, London, 1989, p. 139, no. 119
For a white overlay pink glass example of pear shape, carved on one side with a cricket on a gourd cage and similarly cut with varying depths of overlay to suggest depth and shadow, see The Au Hang Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Catalogue, Ontario, 1993, pp. 54-55, no. 60
For another, of identical color and shape without handles and depicting Huang Chengan on his mule, see Sotheby's, New York, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, December 2, 1985, lot 144
For a white overlay pink glass example of pear shape, carved on one side with a cricket on a gourd cage and similarly cut with varying depths of overlay to suggest depth and shadow, see The Au Hang Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Catalogue, Ontario, 1993, pp. 54-55, no. 60
For another, of identical color and shape without handles and depicting Huang Chengan on his mule, see Sotheby's, New York, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, December 2, 1985, lot 144