Description
Rounded Chinese snuff bottle in five-color overlay glass on an opaque white background from the so-called “Yangzhou” school. On one side, carved in relief two ducks on the water, lotus flowers and two dragonflies; on the reverse a cat and two flowers on a rock, a bird and two butterflies flying above, a Jixiang seal.
19th century
Height: 6cm
Origin :
Italian collection
Clare Lawrence Ltd. London, June 13, 1996
Monimar collection
Christies London – October 12, 1987 – Sale of the Dwyer collection – Illustrated p.11 No. 9
Edmund F. Dwyer Collection
Exposed:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October-November, 1984
