Property from a distinguished Asian private collection (Lots 368-396)






A fine red overlay white glass snuff bottle


18th/19th centuryThe bottle of compressed pear-shaped form, the opaque white ground overlaid in red depicting hovering butterflies above leafy branches of blossoming peonies issuing from rockwork. 4.9cm (2in) high.
|ProvenanceA distinguished Asian private collectionA similar red overlay white glass snuff bottle, 1750-1900, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and illustrated by H.White, Snuff Bottles from China: The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, London, 1992, pp.172-173, no.2.