Two green overlaid glass snuff bottlesLate 18th/19th century
The first a pear-form bottle with a wide mouth, flat lip, the milky-white bottle applied with a single green overlay, carved to the lower section as a planter with key-fret and diamond patterns, the upper section presented with an array of various flowers; the second a compressed globular bottle with a subtly recessed lip, carved through the grass-green overlay with figures in boat, or acrossing a bridge in a waterscape with trees and gazebos on precipitous rocks, all against a 'snowflake' suffused ground.
2 1/2 and 2 1/4in (6.4 and 5.7cm) high (2).注脚Provenance
'flower' bottle: Treasure Auctioneer Limited, Hong Kong, 2 October 1999, lot 230
'figures and landscape' bottle: Spencer Gallery Inc., Palm Beach, Florida, 26 May 1999