A red overlay glass snuff bottle18th/19th centuryOf flattened baluster form, elegantly overlaid to each side with a sinuous chilong with bifurcated tail, one coiled around the base to form the footrim, the sides with beast mask and long loop ring handles, all on a snowstorm ground, stopper.The bottle 6.7cm (2.5/8in) high.注脚For an overlay bottle with similarly modelled chilong see Sotheby's, New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1 July 1985, lot 52.