**AN UNUSUAL RED OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

PROBABLY IMPERIAL, PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1760-1820

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**AN UNUSUAL RED OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL, PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1760-1820
Of compressed pear shape with flat lip and recessed foot surrounded by a footrim, well carved through the transparent red layer to the translucent white ground with two chi dragons biting the edge of a shou character on one side while touching with their right forefeet the opposite edge of the shou character on the reverse, stained agate stopper with gilt-metal collar
2 in. (5.1 cm.) high

Provenance

Hugh Moss Ltd.

Lot Essay

The combination of the chi dragons and the shou medallion seems to be an evolution in artistic design in the later part of the Qianlong reign. See a red overlay white glass snuff bottle with dragons surrounding a stylized shou character in the Bloch collection, illustrated in Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Vol. 5, Glass, no. 884.

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