A CARVED BLUE AND PINK DOUBLE OVERLAY ‘CHILONG AND COIN’ GLASS SNUFF BOTTLEOpaque white glass with dusky-pink and sapphire-blue double overlay, carved and incised in deep and high relief China, 1780-1860 On one side with a chilong and coin above a cloud of smoke rising from rockwork, with a flying bat and lingzhi fungus next to it, the reverse with a crane and two bats next to the three-legged toad exhausting a stream of vapor with a small hut on top. The shoulders with mock ring handles. All carved in high relief above a neatly incised wave pattern.Both the incised wave ground and the almost invisible second layer of pink overlay are quite rare features. The rather unusual idea of mostly hiding the pink overlay, thus leaving it only to subtly add a third dimension to the scene, has not yet been discussed in the snuff bottle literature at all, at least not to the knowledge of this author. It may well be that this spectacular effect was so difficult to create that it prohibited the carvers from producing a larger quantity of this type of bottle, thus restricting the number of bottles remaining in collections today to only a few, if not just this one example.Shape: Oval flattenedHollowing: StandardMouth, neck and lip: Sprawling neck with small mouth, convex top and slanted lipBase: Broad flattened oval foot rim consisting of blue overlay, emerging from rockwork around the baseDesign, marks, school: Possibly Imperial glassworks, BeijingStopper: Moonstone cabochonHeight of the bottle with stopper: 7.1 cm.Width of the mouth: 5 mm.Width of the neck: 14 mm.Weight:41.3 gramsCondition: Absolutely perfect; some small air bubblesProvenance: From the collection of Mary Ann Edmondson Bresee, Georgia, USA, avid collector and former member of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society. Her grandfather was Walter T. Candler, son of Asa G. Candler, the founder of the Coca-Cola Company. Her bottles were exhibited both at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens and the Norton Museum of Art.涅白地套紅藍雙色料螭龍錢幣紋鼻烟壺涅白地料套粉霞色及寶石藍雙色料,深浮雕中國, 1780-1860 壺型: 橢圓扁平形 掏膛: 規整壺口、頸與唇部:寬頸,小口,平面壺口,撇唇底足: 寬大的扁平橢圓形平足,藍料覆蓋,在底部周圍岩石中露出造型、落款及流派:或爲御製品,北京壺蓋: 蛋白石戒面壺高(含壺蓋): 7.1 厘米口徑: 5 毫米壺頸寬: 14 毫米重量:41.3 克品相: 絕對完美品相,料内可見一些小氣泡來源: 美國喬治亞州 Mary Ann Edmondson Bresee收藏,狂熱的收藏傢,曾是國際中國鼻烟壺收藏協會會員。她的祖父是Walter T. Candler,Asa G. Candler的兒子,可口可樂公司成立人。她的鼻烟壺曾在the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens美術館及the Norton Museum of Art美術館展出過。