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A red overlay decorated glass snuff bottle
52 | BONHAMS 18th/19th century
Of rounded form with slightly sloping shoulders, with applied ruby-
red overlay around the flat mouth rim and covering the clear glass
bottle, finely carved continuously with an auspicious scene of animals
including an egret, a deer holding a lingzhi branch, and a rabbit staring
at a bird perching on a perforated rock, all among a craggy foreground
issuing plants and gnarled pine trees, supported by a carefully finished
oval foot ring.
2 3/4in (7cm) high
$1,200 - 2,000

8085
A ruby red fish-form glass snuff bottle
Designed as a vivid carp with gently curving fins and tail to indicate
the motion of swimming, its scales and fins rendered with carefully
incised lines.
3 3/8in (8.7cm) long
$1,200 - 2,000

8086
A red overlaid ‘snowflake’ glass snuff bottle
19th century
Well-hollowed, of compressed globular form, with a waisted neck,
flat and relatively thin rim, worked with cranberry-red overlay carved
with the sun rising from crashing waves and a bat in flight amid cloud
scrolls, the opposing side featuring an eagle atop rocks between
soaring mountain peaks at narrower sides, all above a short, slightly
splayed oval foot ring.
2 1/8in (5.3cm) high
$1,000 - 1,500