Asian Art I - 15th November 2016
Lot 52
A CHINESE RED OVERLAID GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE 1750-1795 The compressed ovoid body carved in shallow...
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A CHINESE RED OVERLAID GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1795
The compressed ovoid body carved in shallow relief to one side with an egret stood at the water's edge beneath large lotus leaves and flowers, to the other with a whiskered fish basking at the surface amongst lotus and millet, all reserved on a snowflake ground, 6.6cm.
Provenance: Roger Tsui, Hong Kong, 1988. The Bentley Collection.