This bottle is of the type which must have been blown into a standard mould since many examples of this shape are known and they frequently show signs of the two-part mould which contained them. The material here resembles a particular type of jadeite with deep emerald-green markings interspersed with black, such as the jadeite used in making the bottle illustrated by Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, no. 1014.

For two similar green sandwiched glass bottles still in the Imperial Collection, see Masterpieces of Snuff Bottles in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1995, pp. 84 and 85, nos. 63 and 65. And for a group of green sandwiched glass bottles in The Victoria and Albert Museum, acquired by the Museum of Practical Geology by 1880, see H. White, Snuff Bottles from China, London, 1992, pl. 67.