Provenance: |Collection of Yu-Sheng Louise Feng, brought from China, late 1940's|A bottle of nearly identical form and decoration to the present dragon bottle is illustrated in Michael C. Hughes, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Chinese Snuff Bottles, no 219, p. 202. The author also notes a bottle of similar description is listed in the 1876 publication Bibliotheca Nicotiana of William Bragge. Although bottles of this shape and design are more commonly decorated in underglaze blue (see Hugh Moss "The Wrong End of the Dragon" in Journal, Winter 2008, pp 16-22 for several examples), a third bottle with solely the dragon's eyes in blue was sold at Sothebys New York, 17 March 1997, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, lot 317.