Chinese Red Overlay Glass Snuff Bottle

Chinese Red Overlay Glass Snuff Bottle
18th/19th Century
The flattened spherical form raised on a low oval foot, carved through the semi-transparent ruby red layer to the bubble suffused ground depicting a bat holding a ribbon tied wan symbol over a ruyi sceptre emerging from turbulent waves flanked by pine and rockwork, the reverse with a scholar accompanied by two attendants, one holding a pole suspending a string of coins, the other with his arms raised holding a vessel emitting vapor. Height 2 3/8 inches.

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