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A RARE SEVEN-COLOR-OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS SNUFF
BOTTLE
1760-1830
Of large flattened oviform shape, the plain clear glass ground overlaid
in transparent and opaque tones of pink, yellow, red, blue, amber,
green and rust-red with a continuous lotus garden scene with peony
and prunus sprays on rockwork to one main face with blue orchid
or lily sprays to the narrow sides, the other main face with a bat and
dragonfly above lotus rising from water which surrounds the entire
raised oval foot.
3 1/8in (7.9cm) high, stopper
$3,000 - 5,000

1760-1830年 套七色料花卉紋鼻煙壺

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

For another clear glass bottle with multi-color overlay, see Christopher
Sin, Humphrey Hui and Po Ming Kwong, A Congregation of Snuff
Bottle Connoisseurs, An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong
Kong, 1996, pp.58-59, no. 62. Another with a transparent pink glass
ground is illustrated, ibid., pp.50-51, no. 52.

A six-color overlay ‘lotus pond’ snuff bottle dated to the Qianlong
period, is illustrated in Arte & Antiquidade, Rio de Janerio, Aug 1995,
no.990.

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