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A blue overlay white glass snuff bottle
Yangzhou school, 1800-1840
Of compressed pear spherical form with a flat
lip and sapphire blue oval foot rim surrounding
a flat foot, with fixed mask ring handles to each
side, the blue glass carved in low relief with one
face with a fisherman on a rocky outcropping,
with a seal overhead reading Daya, the other
face with a boy in boat with lotus beneath the
inscription Xiang Yuan Yi Qing, the water’s
ripples lightly etched into the glass.
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high
$4,000 - 6,000

8004
A dragon and phoenix glass overlay
snuff bottle
19th century
Of upright rounded rectangular form, with
a flat lip and wide mouth, the opaque white
glass with an overlay of red and blue, with
a blue dragon on one side, reversed by a
phoenix in red, with a red overlay foot rim
with waves under the dragon changing to
rocks under the phoenix.
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high
$4,000 - 6,000

For a similar red and blue glass overlay bottle
see White, Snuff Bottles from China the Victoria
and Albert Museum Collection, London, 1992,
p. 158 no 3. In addition to the similar palette,
the V & A example also has the transforming
foot rim to accommodate the terrain of the
appropriate creature.

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