The bottle has a triple overlay of ochre and green on white on an opaque dark blue ground, one side depicting a praying mantis on a cluster of white pods, the other with an ochre cicada resting on a white cabbage, 5.7cm.
Categories: Chinese Snuff Bottles at Burghley | Chinese Works of Art | Exhibitions |
A glass overlay snuff bottle, 1770-1820.
REFERENCE: CSBG110
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