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A FINE RUBY-RED OVERLAY BUBBLE-SUFFUSED GLASS
'LOTUS POND' BOTTLE
1740-1800
The rich ruby-red overlay carved with a continuous lotus-pond scene,
one side depicting a goose gently gliding across a rippling pond with
lotus pads and flowers rising around it and with a dragonfly above,
the other side with a long-tailed bird, perhaps a swallow, alighting on
a bending bullrush and grasses amidst further lotus, a tall cylindrical
neck with a wide mouth opening and all supported on a flat oval foot
ring.
2 5/8in (6.7cm) high, stopper

$4,000 - 6,000
1740-1800 半透明地套寶石紅料刻夏日蓮塘圖鼻煙壺一件
Provenance:
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., 1991.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Part X,
31 May 2015, lot 98
Published:
Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese
Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 5, Part 2,
Hong Kong, 2002, pp. 435-436, no. 875
來源：
莫士撝，香港，1991年
蘇富比，香港，瑪麗及莊智博珍藏，第十部分，2015年5月311日，
拍品號98
出版：
莫士撝, Victor Graham 及曾嘉寶，《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff
Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection》，卷二，第二部，香
港，2002年，頁435-436，編號875
For a slightly more pear-shaped red overlay glass bottle with a very
similar 'lotus pond' depiction, with wildfowl amidst grasses, lotus
pads and flowers, see Christie's New York, 19 September 2007, The
Meriem Collection, lot 636; see also Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and
Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and
George Bloch Collection, Vol. 5, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2002, pp. 435-
438, nos. 875 and 876, for other examples and a lengthy discussion
of the group.

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