Chinese Peking Glass Overlay Snuff Bottle.
Chinese Peking Glass Overlay Snuff Bottle. The bottle is carved through a red overlay to the translucent bubble-suffused ground, one main side with a monkey picking a peach from a tree accompanied by a horse on the side, the other side with a young monkey offering a peach to an elder monkey. {Height: 2 3/4 inches (7 cm)}. Provenance: From the Estate of prominent physician and surgeon Dr. Elwyn A. Thayer.
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Chinese Peking Glass Overlay Snuff Bottle. The bottle is carved through a red overlay to the translucent bubble-suffused ground, one main side with a monkey picking a peach from a tree accompanied by a horse on the side, the other side with a young monkey offering a peach to an elder monkey. {Height: 2 3/4 inches (7 cm)}. Provenance: From the Estate of prominent physician and surgeon Dr. Elwyn A. Thayer.