For a very similar bottle see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Eric Young, Part IV, October 28, 1993, lot 1008, and formerly in the Bob C. Stevens Collection

For a similar shaped bottle, flecked with aventurine only, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, London, 1995, p. 206, no. 127

For a discussion of a group of gold-flecked bottles see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, New York and Tokyo, 1993, vol. II, p. 553, previously cited in the footnote to lot 14