Lot 199. A rare yellow glass 'wave-pattern' snuff bottle, 18th-19th century. Estimate £1,000 - 1,500 (€1,300 - 1,900). Photo Bonhams.

With a flat lip and recessed foot, with continuous ridges encircling the flattened globular bottle, with a coral stopper.6.2cm (2 1/2in) high (2).

Note: Compare to an identical example illustrated by Moss, Graham and Tsang, The Art of The Chinese Snuff Bottle: Vol.2, New York, 1993, p.587, no.351. According to the authors, the distinctive design on the small group of very similar bottles represented by this example were common in the early Imperial Palace Workshops, Beijing, and such faceted and formalised designs were probably conceived primarily as an abstract formal design. See a similar bottle sold in Bonhams Hong Kong, 26 May 2014, lot 25.