λ FOUR CHINESE HARDSTONE SNUFF BOTTLES

***Please note that this lot is being offered without the two central stoppers shown in the image.

λ FOUR CHINESE HARDSTONE SNUFF BOTTLES
19TH CENTURY

5.5cm max. (4)

The tourmaline bottle with a copy of a 1962 invoice for The Little Shop.

One yellow tourmaline carved with foliage and a butterfly, with a pink tourmaline stopper in the form of a monkey, with a wood stand; another agate carved with an archaistic design; a third puddingstone with russet and grey inclusions; the fourth agate with the contrasting green inclusions carved as foliage and insects.

From an English private collection, the tourmaline bottle with a copy of an invoice for The Little Shop, dated 28th May 1962.