A very rare yellow ground and famille rose enameled miniature gourd-form glass snuff bottle

A very rare yellow ground and famille rose enameled miniature gourd-form glass snuff bottle
Imperial, Beijing Palace Workshops, Qianlong mark incised and painted in black to the base and of the period, 1736-1795
The exquisite, jade-like translucent white glass bottle with a wide mouth, flat lip, delicately painted around the walls with graceful leafy tendrils bearing blooming flowers and ripened double-gourds, the lower bulb of the double-gourd decorated with colorful butterflies, all against a lemon-yellow ground firing to a burnt pale russet on one side, and framed between a pink enameled scroll border surrounding the neck and a simple linear band around the side of the low foot ring; the gently recessed foot lightly incised the four-character mark and painted in grayish-black.
1 7/16in (3.7cm) high