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A BROWN OVERLAY GLASS ‘BAT AND A THREE-COLOUR OVERLAY GLASS A GROUP OF FIVE SILVER-MOUNTED
SHOU’ SNUFF BOTTLE ‘FIVE BATS’ SNUFF BOTTLE HARDSTONE AND EMBELLISHED
18th/19th century 18th/19th century SILVER SNUFF BOTTLES
The cylindrical white glass bottle finely The opaque white glass bottle finely carved 19th/20th century
carved with eighty-eight variations of a shou in relief to each side with shou roundels Comprising: a jade pebble bottle, stopper;
character and a line of eight bats, bordered surrounded with five bats, with two further a jade floral plaque-inset bottle with
with t-fret bands, coral and green hardstone chilong flanking on the sides, stopper. tortoiseshell reverse, cyclically dated
stopper. 6cm (2 3/8in) high (2). Guangxu dingwei year, corresponding to
7cm (2 3/4in) high (2). 1907, stopper, wood stand; a pear-shaped
£1,000 - 1,500 bottle worked with fish, stopper; a hardstone
£1,000 - 1,500 HK$10,000 - 15,000 embellished bottle, stopper, wood stand; a
HK$10,000 - 15,000 CNY9,000 - 13,000 small bottle with deer roundels, stopper.
CNY9,000 - 13,000 The largest: 9cm (3 1/2in) high (12).
£1,000 - 1,500
HK$10,000 - 15,000
CNY9,000 - 13,000

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