IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1740-1760

Of the various colors of gold-splashed glass which so fascinated the Court during the eighteenth century, green is the rarest.

For a gold-splashed turquoise glass, and a gold-splashed black glass bottle respectively, both bearing Qianlong marks, see Chang Lin-Sheng, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, p. 206, nos. 249 and 251. For another example of a gold-splashed green glass bottle still in the Imperial Collection, see Masterpieces of Snuff Bottles in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1995, p. 89, no. 72.