Lot Essay
For very similar bottles see The Au Hang Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 1993, pp. 66-67, no. 78; Sotheby's London, 24 April 1989, lot 291; and Humphrey K. F. Hui and Christopher C. H. Sin, An Imperial Qing Tradition, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 129, no. 160
For another, carved with a qilin on a red rather than pink ground, see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, p. 228, no. 317; and another included in the exhibition, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Douglas, Johnston and Other Collections, The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, 1992, Catalogue, p. 13, no. 16
For another, carved with a qilin on a red rather than pink ground, see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, p. 228, no. 317; and another included in the exhibition, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Douglas, Johnston and Other Collections, The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, 1992, Catalogue, p. 13, no. 16