A RARE SEMI-OPAQUE WHITE OVERLAY TRANSPARENT RED GLASS BOTTLE

细节

A RARE SEMI-OPAQUE WHITE OVERLAY TRANSPARENT RED GLASS BOTTLE
POSSIBLY YANGZHOU, 1780-1850

Of rounded rectangular shape, delicately carved through the overlay with a grasshopper on beet leaves on one side and a cricket balanced precariously on a gourd-shaped cricket cage with unattached cover on the other, divided by fixed-ring lion-mask handles at the narrower sides, the oval foot ring and cylindrical mouth cut from the overlay
2 3/8in. (6.1cm.) high, stopper

拍品专文

For a Yangzhou bottle of very similar shape and semi-opaque white overlay on a transparent red ground, formerly in the Marian Meyer Collection, and depicting a cat on one side and a cockerel in a garden on the other see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles II, Catalogue, London, 1989, p. 139, no. 119

For a white overlay pink glass example of pear shape, carved on one side with a cricket on a gourd cage and similarly cut with varying depths of overlay to suggest depth and shadow, see The Au Hang Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Catalogue, Ontario, 1993, pp. 54-55, no. 60

For another, of identical color and shape without handles and depicting Huang Chengan on his mule, see Sotheby's, New York, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, December 2, 1985, lot 144