WFE 62 An orange overlay yellow-ground snuff bottle


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18th/19th century

The flattened ovoid yellow ground bottle is carved to one face through the orange overlay with a leaping carp emerging from waves below a celestial pavilion, the other face with a sun emerging from waves below two bats and a crane in flight holding a fruiting peach branch, all between two branches of pine, coral stopper

Provenance: Collection Julia Shackelford, acquired in 1948

Works of Art > Early Bronzes
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