Lot Essay
A number of comparable perfume holders have been published. A cylinder in the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection with similarly rounded relief carving of the chilong is illustrated by C. Clunas, Chinese Carving, London, 1996, p. 46, fig. 45. The author attributes this piece to the Jinling tradition of carving on account of the low-relief carving with rounded edges. Another comparable but narrower cylinder with very similarly depicted chilong is illustrated by P. Moss, The Literati Mode, London, 1986, no. 51.