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Bottle ID: 00292
YELLOW W/RED OVERLAY, COILING DRAGONS
Date: 1736-1795
Height: 59 mm
Glass, of flattened rounded form tapering to an elongated neck, overlaid in clear red on a translucent amber-yellow ground, carved on each side with a similar design of a coiling dragon, on one side the dragon looking upward, the other with the dragon looking down, the oval footrim also carved in red.
Imperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing.
Similar Examples:
Moss, Hugh, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang. The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle - The J & J Collection, 1993, Vol. 2, p. 613, no. 369.
Hall, Robert. Chinese Snuff Bottles II, 1989, p. 116, no. 96.
Provenance:
Robert Hall
Exhibited:
Annual Convention ICSBS Toronto, October 2007
The majority of overlay glass bottles produced in the Palace Workshops used a single red layer over a clear, bubbly or snowflake ground. This bottle, however, belongs to a small group where the red glass overlay is carved over a clear amber-yellow ground, resulting in a very dramatic combination of colors. Palace output was never mundane and this example is no exception even down to the detail of one dragon's head looking downwards, while the reverse side has the dragon's head looking upwards. This has the effect of producing a masterly design on each side, being similar in concept, but unique in execution.