An unusual turquoise and green-overlay gold-flecked glass snuff bottle and a polychrome splashed glass snuff bottle1850-1900 and 1750-1800
The first of slender tear-drop form, the interior of turquoise glass, covered with a pea-green gold-flecked overlay; the second of tapering rectangular form, with polychrome pastel-hued and aventurine splashes on a milk-white ground within a clear glass outer layer, stopper.
5.5cm. (2.1/8in) and 5.8cm. (2.1/4in) high. (3).注脚Objects of Desire: A European private collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Lots 98-146

The green overlay bottle:
Provenance: Clare Lawrence Ltd., London
Christie's New York, 2nd December 1994, Lot 496
A Private Collection
The splashed bottle:
Provenance: Clare Lawrence Ltd., London, 8th February 1993
Oriental Corner, California