A FINE TRANSPARENT RED OVERLAY SNOWSTORM PALE-AMBER GLASS BOTTLE

拍品 1931

1931

细节

A FINE TRANSPARENT RED OVERLAY SNOWSTORM PALE-AMBER GLASS BOTTLE
1750-1820

Of rounded shape, carved through the red overlay in relief in a continuous scene with a heron standing on one leg amidst lotus and millet on one side, on the other another heron swimming, the lotus pads, waves and birds' feathers all minutely detailed, all over an unusual clear glass ground with a faint amber cast and small bubbles
2 7/16in. (6.1cm.) high, stopper

来源

Hugh Moss, Ltd.

拍品专文

For a bottle of similar type depicting birds amongst lotus see Robert Kleinor, Chinese Snuff Bottles in The Collection of Mary and George Block, London, 1995, p. 244, no. 61, dated by the author, on account fo the fine undercutting of the overlay and beautiful craftsmanship, to the eighteenth century