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Lot Essay
For a similar bottle, see Sotheby's, New York, The Mei Ling Collection, 15 March 1984, lot 171; and another illustrated by Clare Lawrence, Miniature Masterpieces from the Middle Kingdom, The Monimar Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, 1996, p. 168-169, no. 78. Another is illustrated in Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York and Tokyo, 1980, pp.112-113, no. 361.
For a similar bottle of more slender shape from the Dr. Paula Hallett Collection, see Sotheby's, New York, 2 December 1985, lot 103; and another of more hollowed type is illustrated by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, vol. I, p. 117, no. 56.
For an identical bottle in white jade, see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, Catalogue, p. 152, no. 127
For a similar bottle of more slender shape from the Dr. Paula Hallett Collection, see Sotheby's, New York, 2 December 1985, lot 103; and another of more hollowed type is illustrated by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, vol. I, p. 117, no. 56.
For an identical bottle in white jade, see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, Catalogue, p. 152, no. 127