拍品专文
For a bottle of near identical shape and design, but carved through a ruby-red overlay to a lemon-yellow ground, see Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Catalogue, London, 1970, no. 204
细节
A SEMI-OPAQUE DEEP-BLUE OVERLAY TRANSPARENT RED GLASS BOTTLE
1770-1850
Of rounded rectangular shape, carved in high relief in a band around the body with five bats amidst clouds, flying as if in a dance with wing tips wrapping together, their bodies finely delineated, the oval foot ring cut from the overlay, all on a deep-red glass ground, the neck thinly cut
2 3/8in. (6cm.) high, stopper
1770-1850
Of rounded rectangular shape, carved in high relief in a band around the body with five bats amidst clouds, flying as if in a dance with wing tips wrapping together, their bodies finely delineated, the oval foot ring cut from the overlay, all on a deep-red glass ground, the neck thinly cut
2 3/8in. (6cm.) high, stopper