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279 two Amethyst snuff bottles
280 19th/20th century
The larger bottle carved with a high-relief boy within a shallow-
110 | BoNHams relief pine grove, stopper; the second carved in shallow relief with
blossoming prunus to one side and pine tree branches to the other,
stopper.
The larger bottle: 6.3cm (2 1/2in) high (4).

£700 - 1,000 HK$8,300 - 12,000
CNY6,600 - 9,500

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two red overlAy glAss snuff bottles
Late Qing Dynasty
Comprising: A flattened bottle of opaque white glass with a single red
glass overlay carved design of a tripping gentleman and attendant,
jadeite stopper; a white glass bottle with a deep red overlay shou-
symbol design, the shoulders with beast masks, with silver mounted
mouth rim, stopper.
The larger: 6.4cm (in) high (4).

£500 - 600 HK$5,900 - 7,100
CNY4,700 - 5,700

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two snuff bottles
19th century and later
Comprising a blue overlay on milky glass bottle, carved to one side
with antiquities, the other with a badger and chrysanthemums, with
mask and loop handles; and a pale green double-gourd flattened
bottle.
The double gourd: 6.5cm high (2).

£1,000 - 1,500 HK$12,000 - 18,000
CNY9,500 - 14,000

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five blue And white snuff bottles
Qing Dynasty and later
Comprising: a cylindrical bottle painted with Zhong Kui and his sister
Meier; a cylindrical bottle with Liu Hai on his three-legged toad, Wanli
four-character mark; an oviform underglaze-red decorated bottle with
numerous monkeys, Yongzheng six-character mark; a large bottle with
‘a hundred deer’ motif, five-character mark; another large bottle with
auspicious mythical beasts, Yongzheng six-character mark.
The largest: 10.8cm (4 1/4in) high (5).

£600 - 800 HK$7,100 - 9,500
CNY5,700 - 7,600

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