**A RARE FIVE-COLOR OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

For a very similar multi-color overlay glass bottle, possibly even by the same hand as the present example, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, vol. 5, Glass, no 981. See, also, two comparable bottles in the collection of Denis Low, the first very similar to the present example, illustrated by R. Kleiner, Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, p. 134, no. 115, the second carved with eight chilong rather than nine, illustrated by D. S. K. Low, More Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, p. 126, no. 115.

This bottle is distinguished by extremely fine carving, suggesting an earlier phase of production, perhaps as early as the first half of the Qianlong reign.

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