A RED OVERLAY ON 'SNOWFLAKE' GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE 1750-1800A RED OVERLAY ON 'SNOWFLAKE' GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE1750-1800The slender bottle built with a cylindrical neck and flat lip, decorated in cranberry-red overlay with a pair of faux mask-and-ring handles on each side of its sloping shoulders and forming a thin oval footrim in contrast to a ground filled with intense 'snowflakes' resembling blooming prunus in snow.2 1/2in (6.4cm) high1750-1800 霏雪地套紅料帶舖首啣環鼻煙壺一件Provenance:Joan and Ted Dorf Collection, no. 347The simplicity of this elegant design belies the control of the manufacturing process which was much more difficult for the glassmakers to achieve than is apparent.