A TRANSPARENT FOUR-COLOUR OVERLAY OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
细节
A TRANSPARENT FOUR-COLOUR OVERLAY OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
1770-1830
Of flattened pear shape, carved through the overlays with butterflies flying amidst peony and lingzhi sprays on one side and hibiscus on the other, the simple oval footring cut from the blue overlay, minute nibbles
2 1/8in. (5.5cm.) high, stopper
拍品专文
For another bottle carved with a butterfly amidst prunus and bamboo see Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of the Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter, K.C.M.G., London, 1974, p. 88, no. G.96