The Meriem Collection Part II. Lot 270

270
**A WELL-CARVED BLUE OVERLAY BUBBLE-SUFFUSED
COLORLESS GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
BEIJING, 1770-1830
Of compressed form with concave lip and recessed, convex foot surrounded by a footrim carved through the transparent pale blue layer with a continuous design of two chi dragons with coiled, sinuous bodies, pale pink tourmaline stopper with giltmetal
collar
6.9 cm. high
$4,000-6,000

P R O V E N A N C E :
Robert Hall-Jutheau Auction, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Auction, Boston, October 1991.

E X H I B I T E D :
Robert Hall, London, 1991.

L I T E R A T U R E :
Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles IV, no. 114.

The confident, fluid carving and exceptional finish of this bottle suggest that it was made in Beijing as part of a distinctive Imperial group of the mid-Qing period. It is stylistically related to the streaked glass bottle of lot 239. See H. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, no. 216 for a similar example in red overlay.

The Meriem Collection Part II. Lot 270