Palace Workshops, Beijing, Qianlong wheel-cut four-character mark and of the period Of baluster form, carved through the blue layer to the opaque milky-white ground with a continuous scene of a lotus pond and a butterfly resting on a branch growing from behind a rock, bronze stopper, box. 7.5cm (3in) high. (2).Footnotes清乾隆 白套藍玻璃花蝶紋鼻烟壺 「乾隆年製」刻款 Provenance: Chinese Porcelain Co., New York, mid 1990s 來源： 中國瓷器公司，紐約，上世紀九十年代中期 The present lot belongs to a group of carved overlay glass snuff bottles attributed to the Imperial glassworks, Beijing, believed to have been produced during the second half of the Qianlong period. A number of similar bottles are preserved in the Qing Court Collections in both Palace Museums. See a very similar example in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Snuff Bottle in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, pl.281, p.216; and another preserved in Beijing, illustrated in Ibid, Hong Kong, 2003, pl. 33. Similar Qianlong mark and period bottles from The Mary and George Bloch Collection were sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 24 November 2014, lot 160 and 26 May 2014, lot 1051; another one was sold at Sotheby's New York, 13 September 2016, lot 226. 乳白色玻璃圓瓶，瓶身套藍色玻璃，刻荷花、蓮蓬生於湖石間，一蝴蝶停於其上。底有「乾隆年製」陰刻款。帶銅鎏金雕花蓋。 此類花蝶題材套玻璃鼻烟壺為造辦處玻璃厰所製之標準器，在清宮舊藏中頗為多見，參看臺北故宮博物院藏一件清乾隆白套藍玻璃花蝶鼻煙壺，刻蝴蝶飛於海棠、翠菊上，見《故宮鼻烟壺》，臺北，1991年，圖版281，頁216。另見一例飾袱繫紋及海棠、竹子等，藏於北京故宮博物院，收錄在《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集·鼻烟壺》，北京，2003年，圖版33。相同底款可比較兩件瑪麗及莊志博舊藏，售於蘇富比香港，2014年5月26日，拍品編號1051；2014年11月24日，拍品編號160。再參考紐約蘇富比，2016年9月13日，拍品編號226。