A CHINESE SAPPHIRE-BLUE OVERLAY GLASS 'LOTUS' SNUFF BOTTLE

£1,500 - £2,500 £3,800

A CHINESE SAPPHIRE-BLUE OVERLAY GLASS ?LOTUS? SNUFF BOTTLE
QIANLONG 1736-95

Attributed to the Imperial Beijing glassworks, the milky-white body decorated with a single overlay of lotus growing in clumps of leaves, flowers and buds from water around the base, 7.1cm.

Provenance: an English private collection, formerly from the collection of John Ford, the Albemarle Collection, purchased from Robert Kleiner & Co. Ltd., 30th September 2004, a copy of the invoice is available.

For a closely related bottle with green overlay in the Marquess of Exeter?s collection, see R Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Burghley House Collection, no.20.