Lot Essay
See a comparable pair of snuff bottles with the same gilded decoration of dragons in central medallions, the neck with a band of interlocking svastikas and stylised lotus petals encircling the foot, illustrated in Humphrey K.F. Hui and Peter Y.K. Lam, The Imperial Connection, Court Related Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Humphrey K.F Hui Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 1998, no. 123.