A YELLOW OCTAGONAL MULTI-FACETED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE AND SNUFF DISHImperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing. 1750-1800 The bottle of octagonal, faceted form with raised multi-faceted panels on each side, with a cylindrical neck and with a flat hexagonal foot, the material of egg-yolk yellow color; stopper. With an apanying dish of slightly concave circular form with a circular footrim, the dish incised with a flower-head design. Bottle: 2in (5.1cm) high Dish: 1 1/2in (4cm) wide 1750-1800 黃料刻棱鼻煙壺及鼻煙碟各一 御製 或為北京宮廷作坊製 Provenance: King Feng Co., Hong Kong, 1985 (bottle) Joan and Ted Dorf Collection, no. 66 (bottle), no. 24 (dish) Literature: Hugh Moss. Chinese Snuff Bottles , 1976, no. 26 (bottle) Although influenced by the presence of Westerners at court in the eighteenth-century, the technique of faceting is clearly Chinese. This snuff bottle would have been mold-blown, then cut and polished in a similar way to the methods used by the jade carvers of the time, a number of whom were seconded to the glass workshops. A liking for this style continued through the eighteenth-century and into the early nineteenth-century, although the bottles tended to be larger in size by the Daoguang period.