CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME SIECLE

Compare to a similar red lacquer snuff bottle which belongs to a group of early lacquer bottles that appears to be largely imperial and from the Qianlong period, sold in Christie's Hong Kong, 25 April 2004, lot 815.
See also three cinnabar lacquer bottles carved with figural scenes in the Qing Court Collection in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Snuff Bottles - The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2003, nos. 392-395.