A FINE RUBY-RED FACETED GLASS BOTTLE

This bottle is of a size and form produced very early in the eighteenth century at the Imperial glassworks, either with these faceted main panels, or with raised oval panels. The squat proportions and unusually tall neck and rounded mouth rim on this particular bottle, however, mark it as an unusual and rare example of this type.

For a related shape, but enameled at the Palace workshops during the first decade of the Qianlong period, see H. Moss, V. Graham and K. B. Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle: The J & J Collection, New York, 1993, vol. 1, no. 185.

For an Imperial-yellow version of this form, of similar size, see G. Tsang and H. Moss, Snuff Bottles of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1978, p. 66, no. 59; and for a turquoise-green example with a Qianlong reign mark and dating early in the reign, see, p. 71, no. 75.