A CHINESE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1850

The ovoid body overlaid in pink, green, yellow and black, carved in shallow relief to one side with a fish swimming amongst lotus, to the other with a frog crouched beneath a lotus leaf, with two butterflies in flight to the shoulder, all reserved on a snowflake ground, 8.2cm.

Provenance: C Y Tse, Hong Kong, 1987. The Bentley Collection.