A TRANSPARENT GREEN OVERLAY SEMI-TRANSPARENT BROWN GLASS BOTTLE

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A TRANSPARENT GREEN OVERLAY SEMI-TRANSPARENT BROWN GLASS BOTTLE
1750-1850

Of flattened rounded shape, delicately carved through the overlay on each side in an almost penciled style with a tiered stand on gently in-curving legs supporting three vessels, divided by fixed-ring lion-mask handles on the narrower sides, the large oval foot cut from the overlay, the brown glass with a faint but dense crizzling
2 3/16in. (5.6cm.) high, stopper

Provenance

Katherine Kitchen Collection

Lot Essay

For another bottle of similar color and design but of rectangular shape, see Christie's, London, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Dwyer Collection, October 12, 1987, lot 56

For an orange overlay opaque white bottle, formerly in the collection of Alex S. Cuzzons, depicting a similar scene of laden tables, see Sotheby Parke Bernet, Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Arthur Gadsby Collection, November 2, 1978, lot 47

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