Lot Essay
A similar snuff bottle enamelled with lotus a blossom design and inscribed with a Guyuexuan mark is illustrated in Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1992, p. 92, pl. 27. Also compare with a pair of white glass snuff bottles decorated with grasshopper and butterflies, inscribed with a Guyuexuan as well as a Qianlong four-character mark, sold at Christie's New York, 19 September 2007, lot 85.