The bottle has a brown overlay on an opaque white ground depicting on one side, an equestrian traveller passing beneath a prunus tree, and on the other, a Buddhist lion and cub playing with a brocade ball, 6.1cm.
During the 19th Century, Yangzhou, in the coastal province of Jiangsu, was a prosperous commercial centre with its own artistic community.
Glass overlay bottles in this very distinctive style have been traced to Yangzhou and can be dated with some accuracy.
