Lot Essay
For an identical bottle see Sotheby's, New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, March 15, 1984, lot 186. For another similar bottle of more honey tone see Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, pp. 114-115, no. 370, where the decoration is called a silkworm pattern. See, also, Sotheby's, Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Arthur Gadsby Collection, November 2, 1978, lot 2, for a more slender example where the decoration is called a "dot and grain" pattern