AN ENGRAVED TRANSPARENT OLIVE GREEN GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

of small, flattened, rounded form, the shoulders and sides cut with facets to simulate bamboo, wheel cut with chrysanthemum sprays on a raised circular panel on the front and reverse.

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28th October 1992, lot 359.
The Monimar Collection.
Clare Lawrence Ltd.

There are some minor surface scratches to both sides among the engraved decoration. The neck is fairly short and may be slightly reduced. The carved sides of the bottle and the foot appear to have been lightly polished. Generally however in good condition.
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Glass bottles with etched decoration are extremely rare. Two bottles of identical form, one ruby-red and diamond engraved with chrysanthemum, and the other turquoise and wheel cut with chrysanthemum and a poem, are illustrated and discussed by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong, 2002, Volume 5, Part 2, pp. 414-5, no. 865 and pp. 418-9, no. 867, where the authors attribute them to the Imperial glassworks, Beijing. A bottle of identical olive-green color is in The Crane Collection, www.thecranecollection.com, no. 208, where an Imperial attribution is also given.