A VERY RARE RED AND BLUE OVERLAY ‘FLASHED’ YELLOW GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE, 1770-1830Sapphire-blue, lemon-yellow and cinnabar-red overlays carved in high relief on a yellow flashed ground, with neatly incised detail workChina, 1770-1830The circumferential design shows pomegranates, finger citrus, peaches surrounded by their leafy stems, with two large bats on the shoulders. The mouth is very large, pointing towards an eighteenth-century bottle. The various glass filaments in the back ground, the furiously dispersed glass bubbles, the foot rim being formed of leaves and branches, which are part of the design, further strengthen this dating approach.This bottle is a very rare example of Chinese flashed glass, where a thin layer of color is added to the colorless glass, giving the impression that the entire ground is yellow. This rarely-used technique was usually confined to monochrome wares, nearly always of ruby-red color. In the present example, the flashing didn’t succeed completely, leaving numerous glass filaments in the background. It is extremely rare to find it as the ground for a cameo overlay carving, and its combination with this rare multicolor overlay appears to be almost unique.Shape: Flattened oval shapeHollowing: StandardMouth, neck and lip: Short cylindric neck succinct to body, very large mouth, slanted lipBase: Foot rim consisting of carved stems and leaves in high reliefStopper: Beijing style stopper carved of red glass in imitation of coral (minimal chips)Height of the bottle with stopper: 6.8 cm.Width of the mouth: 9 mm.Width of the neck: 14 mm.Weight: 53.4 gramsCondition: Very good condition with possibly some minuscule nibbling, but hard to say whether these are original to the bottle or notProvenance: American private collectionLiterature comparison: See Christie's, Hong Kong, 1 November 1994, lot 1215 for an example of a ‘flashed’ reddish-pink glass snuff bottle.Auction result comparison: The Meriem Collection Important Chinese Snuff Bottles. Christies, New York, 19 September 2007, lot 646. (for another ‘flashed’ glass overlay snuff bottle)非常罕見的髮絲紋黃地套紅藍料鼻烟壺,1770-1830黃地玻璃上套寶石藍,檸檬黃及朱紅玻璃,細節精緻中國, 1770-1830壺型: 扁平橢圓形掏膛: 規整壺口、頸與唇部:短直頸,延伸至壺體,口極大,撇唇底足: 底足套浮雕卷葉紋壺蓋: 北京風格仿珊瑚紅玻璃 (細小磕損)壺高(含壺蓋): 6.8 厘米口徑: 9 毫米壺頸寬: 14 毫米重量: 53.4 克品相: 極好,有幾處微不足道的磕損,很難説是否是此壺原帶來源: 美國私人收藏