A superb and rare seven-colour overlay glass snuff bottle
Imperial, Palace Workshops, Beijing, 18th/19th centuryOf flattened rounded spade form, brilliantly and finely carved through overlays of pink, blue, yellow, red, turquoise, pale pinkish yellow and deep green to depict a continuous design of flowering plum blossoms, peonies, magnolia and lotus growing from leafy branches in a weave basket with rope twist edges, all on a bubble-suffused ground, pink tourmaline stopper with a gilt-metal collar. 6.5cm (2 1/2in) high. (2).