Three porcelain snuff bottles, Qing dynasty, late 18th - 19th century | 清十八世紀末至十九世紀 青花漁牧圖鼻煙壺一件 及 青花釉裏紅獨釣圖鼻煙壺兩件

Blue and white 'herdboy and fisherman' bottle:
Robert Kleiner, 'The Tuyet Nguyet Collection of Snuff Bottles and Saucers', Arts of Asia, November-December 1998, no. 58.

青花漁牧圖鼻煙壺：
Robert Kleiner，〈雪月藏鼻煙壺及鼻煙碟〉，《亞洲藝術》，1998年11/12月，編號58

Blue and white 'herdboy and fisherman' bottle:
Christopher Sin, Humphrey Hui, and Po Ming Kwong, eds, A Congregation of Snuff Bottle Connoisseurs: An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1996, cat. no. 86.

Tina Yee-wan Pang ed., Heavenly Creations, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collections of Anthony Cheung, Humphrey Hui, Po-ming Kwong, Tuyet Nguyet and Christopher Sin, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2005, cat. no. 124.

青花漁牧圖鼻煙壺：
冼祖謙、許建勳及鄺溥銘編，《壺趣集慶：中國鼻煙壺展》，徐氏藝術館，香港，1996年，編號86

彭綺雲編，《天地造化：鍾棋偉、許建勳、鄺溥銘、雪月及冼祖謙藏中國鼻煙壺》，香港大學美術博物館，香港，2005年，編號124

With its highly unusual pierced foot and bat-shaped handles, the 'herdboy and fisherman' bottle in the present group lot was inspired by a group of late 18th-century imperial inscribed chalcedony bottles of similar shape. With the economy initiated by the Jiaqing Emperor's ascent to the throne, the Court commissioned numerous porcelain bottles modelled after imperial bottles made of other materials.