A WELL CARVED BLUE OVERLAY GOLD-SPLASHED GLASS BOTTLE
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A WELL CARVED BLUE OVERLAY GOLD-SPLASHED GLASS BOTTLE

1770-1830

细节
A WELL CARVED BLUE OVERLAY GOLD-SPLASHED GLASS BOTTLE
1770-1830
Of flattened, ovoid form, well carved on either side through the sapphire-blue overlay to the gold-flecked, color-splashed ground with a phoenix perched on a rocky outcropping before a blossoming branch of camellia, stopper
2 3/8in. (6cm.) high
来源
Acquired in Beijing between 1945 and 1950.

拍品专文

Compare the blue overlay glass bottle with similar ground of mottled colored splashes, but decorated with carp, illustrated by M.C. Hughes, The Blair Bequest: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, 2002, p. 130, no. 153.