For another with yellow around rather than the aubergine of this example and also bearing a blue-enameled flowerhead to the base see Clare Lawrence, Chinese Snuff Bottle Engagement Diary, 1993, February. For a similar shaped bottle but with the design in grisaille on a yellow-green ground see Bob C.Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, No.988 and sold Sotheby's, York Avenue Galleries, Fine and Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Bob C. Stevens, Part III, June 25, 1982, lot 211. For another bottle with similar floral decoration on a yellow ground see Alexander Brody, Old Bottles Into Old Wine, A Collector's Commonplace Book, pp.56-57

For yet another painted with dragons on a dark ground and bearing a Qianlong mark see Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Catalogue, 1977, fig.238