Protected Species

1800-1900
Height: 5.95 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.4/1.16 cm
Stopper: glass; silver collar

Provenance:
Robert Kleiner, 1993
Ruth and Carl Barron no. 5391
Christie’s, New York, 15 March 2017, lot 337

Published:
Robert Hall, Irish Mist, Chinese Snuff Bottles No. XIV, 2009, p. 35 no. 48

 

Transparent emerald-green, and translucent pale yellow and white glass; with a flat lip, slightly convex foot and convex footrim; carved as a double overlay with the white bottle enclosed in a protective container with two handles, decorated on each main side with a fan-tailed goldfish.

Alexander Whittaker