This appears to be one of a very few gold snuff bottles decorated with both cloisonne and Beijing enamels known. Cf. a bottle illustrated in Snuff Bottles in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, pl. 16, with European subjects in Beijing enamels below cloisonne enamels on the shoulder and neck, the body is most probably gold; and to pl. 11 with similarly decorated shaped panels to either side reserved on a cloisonne ground, both with four-character Qianlong marks in blue enamel. There are other published gold wares with this rare combination of enamels. A large gold Tibetan-style ewer with Beijing famille rose enamel panels on a cloisonne ground is illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Enamel Ware, the National Palace Museum, pl. 17; and cf. the pair to the above in the Pierre Uldry Collection illustrated by Brinker and Lutz in Chinese Cloisonne, no. 291. For a similarly decorated Jue and stand encrusted with turquoise sold in our London Rooms, 13 December, 1982, lot 716, previously in the Milner collection, cf. ibid. pl. 289.