For a bottle of similar type, formerly in the collection of Carl Kempe, the distinguished Swedish collector of Chinese art, see Sotheby's, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, New York, November 22, 1988, lot 99; and another, illustrated by Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of the Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter, K.C.M.G, p. 56, pl. G2

A blue glass example, illustrated by Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of John Ault, p. 6, fig. 2, is attributed to the Kangxi period (1662-1722). Kleiner mentions that, when the Kangxi Emperor arrived on a progress in Suzhou in 1705, he gave gifts of glass from the imperial workshops to an official, Song Luo, including two gold-flecked blue bottles