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Lot 7202
A five-color overlaid white glass snuff bottle 1820-1880
23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
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A five-color overlaid white glass snuff bottle
1820-1880
Of rounded rectangular form with a subtly waisted neck, flat lip, green overlaid splayed oval foot, the milky white bottle carved through the red, green, pink, blue, and caramel overlays with chrysanthemum, rocks and butterfly to one side, an orchid in a vase in front of tied scrolls and a butterfly on the reverse.
2 3/4in (7cm) high
Of rounded rectangular form with a subtly waisted neck, flat lip, green overlaid splayed oval foot, the milky white bottle carved through the red, green, pink, blue, and caramel overlays with chrysanthemum, rocks and butterfly to one side, an orchid in a vase in front of tied scrolls and a butterfly on the reverse.
2 3/4in (7cm) high
Footnotes
Provenance:
the Bentley Collection, U.K.
Sotheby's, Sussex, 25 June 1991, lot 26
Published:
The Bentley Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Asian Art Studio, Inc., 2008, p. 38














