Enamelled glass snuff bottle ‘Ducks’, 20th century

A carved and enamelled glass snuff bottle known as a Liuli ‘琉璃’. It has a flat, circular body, decorated with reliefs in white and red, with decorative borders and superimposed waves, on which are arranged, in the centre, a succession of ellipses, like a window, through which a scene of small ducks on a pond, surrounded by bamboo branches, can be seen. 

Size: 8.2 x 3.3 x 6 cm

Weight: 87.4 g