A CHINESE GREEN-OVERLAY WHITE AND PINK GLASS 'PEACH' SNUFF BOTTLE

A CHINESE GREEN-OVERLAY WHITE AND PINK GLASS 'PEACH' SNUFF BOTTLE
18TH/19TH CENTURY

The bottle is carved through the green glass to form a leafy stem, the body is of opaque milky-white and pink 'soufflé' glass giving the impression of a ripe peach, 4.5cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, with a copy of an invoice for The Little Shop, dated 18th August 1962.

Cf. R Kleiner, The Golden Autumn Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, p.48, no.48 for a related example; see also, Moss et al., 1996-2009, vol.5, no.973.

十八/十九世紀 粉白地套綠料壽桃形鼻煙壺
來源：英國私人收藏，1962年8月18日購於香港天和行古玩玉器（附發票複印件）。