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441                                               442                                             For a similar example to the blue glass bottle
A group of eight snuff bottles                    A small collection of glass and                 see: Sotheby’s, London, ‘Fine Chinese Snuff
Qing Dynasty and later                            hardstone snuff bottles                         Bottles’, 23rd March 1988, lot 305.
Comprising: a moulded, white glazed               19th century                                    For a similar example to the caramel coloured
porcelain bottle; a blue and white cylindrical    Comprising: a banded agate bottle with tiger’s  bottle see: Christie’s, London, ‘Fine Chinese
bottle with dragons; a pear-shaped bottle         eye stopper; an agate silhouette bottle with    Snuff Bottles, The Dwyer Collection’, 12th
enamelled with a fisherman; a corn-cob form       paired lion mask-and-loop handles; three        October 1987, lot 60.
biscuit-fired bottle; a mottled green hardstone   marbled glass bottles, one of caramel tone,
bottle, aventurine glass stopper; a carved        one green and one blue, stoppers; a yellow
green hardstone bottle; a rose quartz bottle      Beijing glass tear-drop bottle, stopper; and a
carved with foliate designs, matching stopper;    white ground, double yellow and red overlay
an inside-painted glass bottle, cyclically dated  glass bottle, stopper.
1980.                                             The largest: 7.3cm (2 1/8in) high (13).
The blue and white bottle: 6.7cm (2 5/8in) high
                                                  £1,200 - 1,500
£600 - 800                                        CNY12,000 - 15,000
CNY5,800 - 7,700                                  HK$14,000 - 18,000
HK$7,100 - 9,400

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