Lot Essay
For a smaller example from the Dodge Collection, see Sotheby's, New York, 17 March 1997, lot 154.
For another bottle of different shape but with similar formalization of design typical of Qianlong archaism, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong, 1995, vol. I, Jade, pp. 82-83, no. 29
For another bottle of different shape but with similar formalization of design typical of Qianlong archaism, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong, 1995, vol. I, Jade, pp. 82-83, no. 29