A rare red-overlay glass pear-shaped snuff bottleQianlong
With tall straight neck and neatly finished footrim, decorated to one side with Huang Chengyan astride a donkey, followed by an attendant on a pine-strewn path, the reverse with a sage crossing a bridge before bamboo, attended by a boy carrying a qin, stopper.
6cm (2.3/8in) high. (2).注脚Objects of Desire: A European private collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Lots 98-146

Provenance: Clare Lawrence Ltd., London
Sotheby's New York, 25th October 1997, Lot 30
The Gerry P. Mack Collection