IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER INCISED MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A FINE AND RARE SMALL BLUE OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER INCISED MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Of flattened, rounded form, fluidly carved with an overall design of two chilong with sinuous leafy bodies, beryl stopper
1 11/16 in. (4.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired circa 1960s-1974, and thence by descent within the family.

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Lot Essay

For related Qianlong overlay glass bottles, each bearing a similar wheel-cut reign mark, see Chang Lin-sheng, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, pp. 216-19, nos. 280-91. See, also, three Qianlong overlay glass bottles, all with wheel-cut reign marks, illustrated in Masterpieces of Snuff Bottles in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1995, pp. 90-91, nos. 74-76.

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