A ruby-red overlay glass 'bat and peach' snuff bottle and a ruby-red glass 'lotus pond' octagonal snuff bottle, Qing dynasty, 18th century | 清十八世紀 珍珠地套寶石紅料福壽雙全鼻煙壺 及 寶石紅料蓮塘圖八吉祥鼻煙壺一組兩件

'Lotus pond' bottle:
Robert Kleiner, 'The Tuyet Nguyet Collection of Snuff Bottles and Saucers', Arts of Asia, November-December 1998, no. 2.

蓮塘圖鼻煙壺：
Robert Kleiner，〈雪月藏鼻煙壺及鼻煙碟〉，《亞洲藝術》，1998年11/12月，編號2

'Lotus pond' bottle:

Christopher Sin, Humphrey Hui, and Po Ming Kwong, eds, A Congregation of Snuff Bottle Connoisseurs: An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1996, cat. no. 30.

Tina Yee-wan Pang ed., Heavenly Creations, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collections of Anthony Cheung, Humphrey Hui, Po-ming Kwong, Tuyet Nguyet and Christopher Sin, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2005, cat. no. 24.

蓮塘圖鼻煙壺：
冼祖謙、許建勳及鄺溥銘編，《壺趣集慶：中國鼻煙壺展》，徐氏藝術館，香港，1996年，編號30

彭綺雲編，《天地造化：鍾棋偉、許建勳、鄺溥銘、雪月及冼祖謙藏中國鼻煙壺》，香港大學美術博物館，香港，2005年，編號24

The 'lotus pond and eight Buddhist emblems' octagonal bottle is typical of the late Qianlong period. The ropework borders around the neck were found in contemporary palace enamelled glass.

For closely related examples, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle: The J & J Collection, New York, 1993, cat. no. 355; and another illustrated in Robert Kleiner, Boda Yang and Clarence F. Shangraw, Chinese Snuff Bottles: A Miniature Art from the Collection of George and Mary Bloch, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat. no. 70.