A SEMI-TRANSPARENT DARK-RED OVERLAY SNOWSTORM-GROUND BOTTLE

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A SEMI-TRANSPARENT DARK-RED OVERLAY SNOWSTORM-GROUND BOTTLE
1770-1850

Of rounded rectangular shape, carved in high relief through the dark overlay with a continuous scene of the eight horses of Muwang, running, walking, feeding and rolling, in silhoutte against the dense snowstorm ground, small bruise
2¾in. (7cm.) high, stopper (12)

Lot Essay

For a near identical bottle (possibly the same) see Sotheby's, Los Angeles, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Alice B. McReynolds, Part I, October 31, 1984, lot 62

For a blue overlay bottle carved in similar high relief with the eight horses of Muwang, see The Au Hang Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Catalogue, Ontario, 1993, pp. 60-61, no. 69. For a Yangzhou seal school bottle with low-relief blue overlay depicting a similar scene see, Chinese Snuff Bottles and Jade Carvings from the Douglas, Guam and other collections, The Chinese Porcelain Company, Catalogue, New York, p. 18, no. 22

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