FOUR CHINESE OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES

FOUR CHINESE OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES

19TH CENTURY

The smallest carved with archaistic vessels in white against a clear blue ground, another with a dark red dragon and bat reserved on an opaque pale blue ground, and two carved through red glass to a clear ground, one decorated with gourds and leaves growing from trailing vines, the other with six sinuous chilong, 6.2cm max. (4)

Provenance: from an English private collection, West Sussex, acquired by the current owner during various tours of duty between 1968 and 1985.