For another lac burgauté and lacquer bottle inlaid with luohans on one side and a dragon on the other see Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc, Fine Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mrs. Elmer A. Claar, Part One, December 2, 1969, lot 62. For a lac burgauté bottle depicting a seated scholar on one side see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles II, London, 1989, pp. 28-29, no. 18, where the author notes, "the most significant output of the Japanese snuff bottle manufacturers appears to have arisen out of the appearance in Japan of certain Chinese prototypes, including lac-burgauté and imperial ivories at some time in the latter part of the nineteenth century". He continues in reference to the bottle illustrated, "It is also significant that this example does not have the usual, spurious reign mark, suggesting that it is well removed from the original production and made for a local audience who would have appreciated the re-acquired naivety of the decoration"

Queen Mary was a keen collector of Chinese snuff bottles and the renowned artist, Ma Shaoxuan depicted her and her husband, King George V, on a number of inside-painted glass snuff bottles at the order of a British diplomat in Beijing in 1911