A CHINESE RED OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

A CHINESE RED OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1780-1850

With a slender milky-white body overlaid with a continuous scene of a dragon rising from waves and exhaling the cloud to support of pavilion in the sky, a crane sweeps down with a rod in its beak and a bat floats amidst rising bubbles, 7.7cm.

Provenance: an English private collection, formerly from the collection of Arthur Gadsby, Hong Kong 1978, White Wings Collection, No.72; Gil and Rosalie Small, Savannah, Georgia, purchased from Robert Kleiner & Co. Ltd., 10th January 2006, a copy of the invoice is available.