A SEVEN COLOR OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

of flattened rounded form, overlaid in red, blue, orange, turquoise, green, olive green and pink on a bubble suffused ground, finely carved with nine qilong including one surrounding the footrim

Georgia E. Roode.
Kardos Collection, no. 190.
Sotheby's New York, 1st July 1985, lot 23.

Connaissance des Arts, November 1971, pp. 102-109.
Patrick K. M. Kwok, 'The Joe Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles', Arts of Asia, November-December 1993, pp. 92-97, no. 12.

There is a very minor pinhead chip/burst airbubble on the edge of the neck rim. The green dragon's tail appears to have an 1/8 inch long section missing between its mid-section and tip - this may never have been there or may indicate a polished out chip. There is a 3/8 inch long fine straight crack to the neck - running just down to the shoulder.
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Two slender ovoid bottles with a similar coloration and treatment of the carved qilong to the present piece were in the Bloch and Douglas Collections, illustrated respectively by Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1987, pp. 72-73, no. 96 and The Chinese Porcelain Company, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Douglas, Gnam and Other Collections, New York, 1992, pp. 16-17, no. 21, where both authors note the Imperial significance of the 'Nine Dragons' as subject matter, and attribute the bottles to the Palace Workshops, Beijing.