An Imperial inscribed ‘Manchu Script’ sapphire-blue overlay glass snuff bottle, Imperial Workshops, Qing dynasty, Qianlong-Jiaqing period. Photo courtesy Sotheby's

7.8 cm., 3 in. Estimation 180,000 — 220,000 HKD

Provenance: Sotheby’s London, 2nd July 1984, lot 191.
Guo’an Collection.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 30th October 2000, lot 510.

Litterature: Chrsitopher C.H. Sin, 'Hong Kong Auction Review, Sotheby's, Monday, October 30, 2000', Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Winter 2000, p. 31, fig. 1.
Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 5, Hong Kong, 2002, no. 919.

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