PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION An Imperial Red-Overlay semi-opaque milky glass BottleWheel-engraved Qianlong four-character mark and of the period, Probably Beijing Palace Workshops Of rounded shape below a tapering neck with a wide mouth opening, the strawberry-red overlay very delicately carved in layers of differing thickness to enhance the three-dimensionality of the subject of two dragons coiling around a shou character on each main face below a descending bat, a simple red overlay oval foot ring, the base centered by the engraved imperial mark, 1 7/8in (4.8cm) high, stopper box 白套紅料福壽鼻烟壺 《乾隆年製》款 或爲北京宮廷製 Forparable examples in the Beijing Palace Museum, see Gugong bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin daxi (Snuff Bottles, Theplete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum) , Hong Kong, 2003, pp.23-25, no's. 27 and 33, and pp.30-31, no's. 37-38. Four related floral-decorated bottles in the National Palace Museum, are illustrated in Lifting the Spirit and Body: The Art and Culture of Snuff Bottle , Taipei, 2012, pl.II-064 to II-067, p.143-144. For other examples see Christie's, London, 8 October 2020, lot 61 for a bottle decorated with an egret and lotus but the same colorbination of red on a milky-cream ground and with a wheel-cut Qianlong mark; and , Hong Kong, 2 December 2021, lot 228, for a floral-decorated example.