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A group of blue And white snuff bottles A group of lAc burgAute snuff bottles
Late Qing Dynasty and later 19th century
Including: a cylindrical, copper-red decorated bottle with a narrative Comprising a flattened globular bottle with an intricate diaper inlay,
scene, probably from ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’, the base with another similar bottle of unusual shape with cartouches enclosing birds
an apocryphal Yongzheng six-character mark; a tall cylindrical bottle and flowers, two bottles with natural history subjects and apocryphal
with a five-clawed dragon writhing after a flaming pearl; together with Qian Li two-character marks; together with a pressed amber pebble
an iron-red ‘dragon’ cylindrical bottle. The largest: 9.5cm (3 3/4in) high bottle and an hardstone embellished lacquer bottle. The first: 6.1cm (2
(9). 3/8in) high (8).

£700 - 1,000 £600 - 800
CNY6,800 - 9,700 CNY5,800 - 7,700
HK$8,200 - 12,000 HK$7,100 - 9,400

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