Bottle ID: 731

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BLACK OVERLAY, PRECIOUS OBJECTS

Date: 1780-1880

Height: 58 mm

Glass, of rounded form with shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck and with a neatly carved oval footrim, carved in high relief using the black overlay over a snowflake ground, and decorated on one main side with a collection of scholars' objects, including a brush pot with brushes and a bronze vessel containing a ruyi scepter on a wood stand; the reverse with a similar scene of a brush pot with brushes, a bronze tripod censer with a ruyi scepter, and a scholars' box on a stand; the sides carved with mock mask and ring handles.

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Provenance:

A private santa Rosa, CA. Collection (collected between 1969-1985)

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