Lot Essay
A Jiaqing-marked bottle of this design is illustrated by M. C. Hughes, The Blair Bequest, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, 2002, p. 194, no. 251, where the author cites two further Jiaqing bottles of this design, one from the Gerry P. Mack Collection, sold in our South Kensington rooms, 8 October 1999, lot 5, and one illustrated by H. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, London, 1971, no. 293.