Details
A RED, BLUE AND REDDISH-BROWN-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1850
The bottle is of elongated form and is carved on one side with a pavilion shaded by a tree with a swirling cloud above. The reverse is decorated with two bats fluttering below a wan emblem and above a lingzhi plant.
3 1⁄8 in. (8 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
Provenance
Bob C. Stevens Collection, no. 1003.
The Bob C. Stevens Collection of Fine and Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, Part II; Sotheby’s New York, 26 March 1982, lot 18.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
Literature
B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, no. 1003.
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far from the World The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 330-331, no. 147.

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