A red overlaid milky-white glass snuff bottle18th/19th century
The compressed globular bottle with a cylindrical neck, flat lip, rounded oval foot ring, carved through the cinnabar lacquer-red overlay to the opaque white ground with a Manchu banner-man on a galloping horse to the front, the reverse with a bold eight-character inscription followed with two seal cartouches 'shu' and 'zhai' (Bourgeois studio).
1 7/8in (4.8cm) high注脚Provenance
King Feng Arts Co., Hong Kong, 19 June 1999

The inscription can be translated approximately as 'the finger of Heaven's majesty makes a clean sweep of evil influence'. Compare a very similar bottle in Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch by R. Kleiner, no 112.