The bottle has a single overlay of black on an opaque pink ground, depicting on one side, a pavilion rising from the waves, and on the other, a carp exhaling a cloud to support a book, with a bat and a phoenix in the sky above, 5.7cm.
Categories: Chinese Snuff Bottles at Burghley | Chinese Works of Art | Exhibitions |
A glass overlay snuff bottle, Chinese, 1800-1900.
REFERENCE: CSBG.88
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