A SIX-COLOUR OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS 'LOTUS POND' SNUFF BOTTLE QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

of transparent emerald-green, ruby-red, sapphire-blue, and golden-yellow glass, translucent pale yellow and pink glass, and colourless glass, all suffused with air bubbles of various sizes, the colourless glass with small white flakes, with a flat lip and flat, irregularly oval foot made up of elements of the design, carved as a single overlay with a continuous design of a lotus pond, with a cat tail and a severed branch of blossoming prunus, with a magpie perched on it and a butterfly overhead, a large lotus leaf forming the base and doubling as a naturalistic foot; the tourmaline stopper with a vinyl collar

Collection of Eric Young.
Sotheby’s London, 3rd March 1987, lot 24.

Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch at the Galleries of Sydney L. Moss, Ltd., Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 1987, cat. no. 101.
Creditanstalt, Vienna, 1993.

Louis H. Exstein, 'London Auction Review', Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Summer 1987, p. 24, fig. 7.
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. 990.

There is a minute chip to the top edge of the red lotus lead on the back side, however the overall condition is quite good.
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Compare the present bottle to another in the Bloch collection, sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 28^th November 2011, lot 104. Both bottles are carved in a similar style, depicting the same subject and using common colours, and it is likely that both bottles date to the second half of the Qialong period.