Lot Essay
For another agate bottle inscribed with the same seal on the base see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, vol. I, no. 131, pp. 218-9. The mark can be read as "For precious enjoyment" or "Precious plaything"
Another unusual example in jasper with the same seal inscribed on the base from the Collection of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Gerry P. Mack, carved in the form of a purse, is illustrated by Hugh Moss in Chinese Snuff Bottles, no. 3, London, 1966, pp. 29-32, pl. H. Another yellow jade bottle of small baluster shape, also with the same mark, forms part of the Gary Mack Collection
For another agate bottle carved on the base through a russet inclusion with the seal Guwan (antique treasure) see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles, A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1994, Catalogue, p. 274, no. 215
Another unusual example in jasper with the same seal inscribed on the base from the Collection of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Gerry P. Mack, carved in the form of a purse, is illustrated by Hugh Moss in Chinese Snuff Bottles, no. 3, London, 1966, pp. 29-32, pl. H. Another yellow jade bottle of small baluster shape, also with the same mark, forms part of the Gary Mack Collection
For another agate bottle carved on the base through a russet inclusion with the seal Guwan (antique treasure) see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles, A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1994, Catalogue, p. 274, no. 215