Three overlay decorated glass snuff bottles


19th centuryIncluding two ovoid form bottles, one in transparent brown shade, the other of clear color, each with applied opaque yellow overlay, carved with a writhing chilong to the main sides; the third a Yangzhou School milky-white bottle, thinly applied with four-color overlays, carved with a fisherman in a boat and another figure crossing a bridge over a lake, one side with a four-character inscription reading 'chun ri jing he' (a fine and harmonious spring day). 2 1/4 and 2 5/8in (5.7 and 6.7cm) high
|Provenancebrown ground bottle: Hartman Rare Art, New York, 1994clear ground bottle: acquired 1967十九世紀 套料鼻煙壺三隻