A FOUR-COLOUR OVERLAY GLASS 'GRAPE' BOTTLE VASE QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD |

with a compressed globular body surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck, carved through the single layer of green, yellow, red and green with a scene of a squirrel beneath scrolling vines issuing furled leaves and clusters of grapes, all between a green band encircling the mouth-rim and another forming the short foot

Four-colour overlay glass bottles are much rarer than the more frequently found snuff bottles decorated in the same technique. For a group of similarly decorated four-colour overlay glass snuff bottles in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, see the exhibition Limpid Radiance. A Special Exhibition of Glass Artifacts from the National Palace Museum Collection, Taipei, 2016, cat. nos.  112-4.