PROBABLY IMPERIAL, PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, 1740-1800

An agate bottle supported on a pierced foot, but with calligraphic incised inscriptions on either side, is illustrated by H. Moss in Chinese Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group, London, 1971, p. 74, no. 196. Another agate bottle also supported on a pierced foot is in the Denis S. K. Low Collection and illustrated by R. Kleiner in Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, Singapore, 1999, no. 173.