A SMALL TRANSPARENT GREEN AND AMBER GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE1720-1780 Thepressed oviform amber glass body overlaid with green glass bi discs carved with archaicma motifs and with vigorous clambering chilong in matching dark amber tones, with relief hanging tassels to the narrow sides forming the handles; stopper. 1 7/8in (4.8cm) high 1720-1780 琥珀色套綠料刻螭龍紋鼻烟壺 Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, 6 April 1990, lot 39 Exhibited: International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria, New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 46 See Denis S.K.Low, More Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect , Hong Kong, 2002, p. 135, no. 124, for a bottle of similar shape and decorated with chilong amongst clouds. For another with a pale green glass overlay chilong on a blue glass bi disc from the Collection of Christopher Sin, ( Fuyun Xuan ), see Tina Yee-wan Pang, (ed.) Heavenly Creations , University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 2005, p. 47, no. 40.