A BLUE-OVERLAY MILKY-WHITE GLASS 'PRUNUS' SNUFF BOTTLE QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG / JIAQING PERIOD

of transparent sapphire-blue and slightly milky glass, heavily suffused with air bubbles and small white flakes, with a flat lip and protruding foot made up of element of the design, carved as a single overlay with a continuous design of two blossoming prunus trees, the foot carved as a large prunus flower; the coral stopper with a vinyl collar

Robert Hall, London, 1985.

Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 5, Hong Kong, 2002, no. 933.

The snuff bottle is in overall very good condition.
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The wide mouth of the present bottle, together with the style and quality of the carving and bubble-suffused ground glass, all suggest that it dates to the late Qianlong period or early nineteenth century.