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A TRANSPARENT PALE GREEN GLASS OVERLAY BUBBLE-
SUFFUSED SNUFF BOTTLE
1780-1850
Of spade shape with cylindrical neck, carved in high relief through a
pale green overlay with a praying mantis amidst scrolling tendrils and
pea-pods to one main face and with a grasshopper on large vegetal
leaves on the other, the rounded oval foot ring formed from the same
overlay, the misty bubble-suffused ground with a few swirls of green
and aubergine vapors.
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high, stopper

$2,500 - 4,000

1780-1850年 套淺綠料螳螂紋鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Arte & Antiquidade, Rio de Janeiro, Aug 1995

For another example from the Marion Mayer Collection of more slender
oviform shape with similar depictions to each main face, see Robert
Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles II, London, 1989, p. 129, no. 109.

For an example carved in agate, see Christie’s, London, The Gerry P.
Mack Collection, 4 October 1999, lot 46.

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