PROBABLY IMPERIAL, PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1780-1830

For three agate bottles of this distinctive form, and attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing, see H. Moss, V. Graham and K.B. Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2, Part 2, Quartz, Hong Kong, 1998, nos. 348, 358 and 359.