A PINK AND WHITE GLASS 'TIED BOW' SNUFF BOTTLE
Imperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops， 1750-1800
Of flattened, rounded form with a cylindrical neck, and with a neatly carved oval footrim, the pink and white body carved in low relief with a continuous design of a brocade shawl draped around the bottle and tied in a bow on one main side, the shawl with a leiwen border and a geometric six-petaled flower-head design; stopper.
1 7/8in (4.8cm) high
Footnotes:
1750-1800 粉白雙色料胎刻綬帶包袱紋鼻煙壺一件
御製 或為宮廷作坊製

Provenance:
Sotheby's New York, November 22, 1988, lot 194
Joan and Ted Dorf Collection, no. 2

This is a design generally found discreetly incised or carved in low relief on nephrite snuff bottles from the eighteenth century and often given an imperial attribution. It appears rarely on glass examples, usually as a carved monochrome color, such as the transparent celadon green bottle from the Collection of the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, where it is given an imperial attribution (see Robert Kleiner. Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, 1999, p. 89, no. 72). This pink and white example is unusual in its color combination where the pink color fades to white at the neck, and its confident relief carving.