Lot Essay
For another bottle carved with vine and a butterfly, see Helen White, Snuff Bottles from China, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, pp. 28-29, no. 2, which formed part of the Salting Bequest to the British Nation. For various jade fruit-shaped bottles see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Catalogue, nos. 136-153, pp. 156-161