Seven Assorted Snuff Bottles

Description:

Seven Assorted Snuff Bottles, China, 19th/20th century, two porcelain with underglaze blue decorations on a crackled ground with green hardstone stoppers; one carved ivory flattened oviform decorated with an incised figure and calligraphy; a snowflake Peking glass snuff bottle with single glass overlay in red depicting scholar's objects; an interior-painted glass bottle depicting hunting scenes; a carved green hardstone bottle depicting birds perched on blooming branches; and a glass flattened ovoid imitation realgar bottle, with two carved wood stands, ht. to 2 3/4 in.
Estimate $250-350


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