The compressed globular body rising from an oval foot to a slightly waisted cylindrical neck.Īuction result comparison: Compare with a related overlay glass snuff bottle with a cricket at Christie’s London in Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on, lot 98, sold for GBP 17,500. Stopper: Glass, gilt bronze collar, metal spoonĭimensions: Height including stopper 67 mm. Her bottles were exhibited both at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens and the Norton Museum of Art.Ĭondition: Very good condition with minor wear, microscopic nibbling to mouth. Candler, the founder of the Coca-Cola Company. Provenance: From the collection of Mary Ann Edmondson Bresee (1932-2017), Georgia, USA, avid collector and former member of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society. Note the fine glass swirls around the neck. The translucent emerald-green glass is carved through the opaque lemon-yellow ground with a cricket perched on a bean pod growing from a leafy vine to one side with scrolling vines issuing further pods and leaves on the other side. A GREEN ON YELLOW OVERLAY GLASS ‘CRICKET’ SNUFF BOTTLE, 18TH CENTURYĬhina, 1750-1800.
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