For a similar bottle see Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles No. 2, p. 11, for a Sotheby's advertisement depicting a representative group from the 1964 season; and Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, pl. 138, for a version in rock crystal

The cicada symbolizes immortality because of its cycle of apparent death and rebirth, and Kleiner notes it is rare to find snuff bottles of this form