Lot Essay
For a similar bottle from the Mei Ling Collection, see Sotheby's, New York, 15 March 1984, lot 19.
For a more rounded porcelain example also imitating jadeite see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Tokyo, 1993, pp. 419-420, no. 251.
For a group of signed and unsigned bottles of similar type clearly belonging to the same group, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles, A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, pp. 246-253, nos. 187-194.
For a more rounded porcelain example also imitating jadeite see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Tokyo, 1993, pp. 419-420, no. 251.
For a group of signed and unsigned bottles of similar type clearly belonging to the same group, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles, A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, pp. 246-253, nos. 187-194.