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A GROUP OF FIVE CERAMIC SNUFF BOTTLES TWO HARDSTONE SNUFF BOTTLES
1800-1940 1850-1950
Comprising an Yixing bottle with enameled landscape reserves and Both well-hollowed; the first a rounded square bottle carved in relief
faux animal handles, the concave foot covered in white enamel, one with two figures under a wutong tree and a landscape with lush trees
narrow side dated Daoguang siyou, corresponding to 1849; a molded and rocks; the second an agate bottle, utilizing the natural color
white glazed bottle decorated with two opposing lion masks with variations in the stone realistically carved with a jujube and peanuts.
eyeballs heightened in black; an enameled portrait bottle painted 2 1/2 and 2 7/8in (6.4 and 7.3cm) high (2).
with two western figures within reserves; a molded and enameled
bottle with an amour theme; and an underglaze blue and copper red $1,200 - 1,500
cylindrical bottle painted with camels approaching a gate, the recessed
foot painted with a figure. 857
2 1/16 to 2 1/2in (5.3 to 6.4cm) high (5). THREE AGATE SNUFF BOTTLES
Including a macaroni agate bottle of pale russet and gray coloration;
$600 - 800 two cameo agate bottle: one carved with Liu Hai and his toad, the
other depicting a boy pulling a buffalo.
855 2 3/8 to 2 5/8in (6 to 6.7cm) high (3).
A SPINACH JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
1820-1950 $1,000 - 1,500
Very well-hollowed, the compressed globular bottle supported on a
carefully rendered, rounded oval foot ring, the surfaces skillfully carved
with a basket-weave pattern.
2 1/4in (6.4cm) high

$1,000 - 1,500
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