FIVE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES

FIVE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
19TH CENTURY

7.5cm. (5)

WITHOUT RESERVE
本拍品不設底價。

One amethyst carved with bats, another honey and russet-coloured agate, the third brown agate with the contrasting grey inclusions carved as birds, the fourth soapstone carved to one side with two Buddhist lions and to the other side with a figure and a horse, the fifth brown lacquer with mask and fixed ring handles.

From an English private collection, acquired in the 1950s and 1960s.