THREE CHINESE CARVED HARDSTONE SNUFF BOTTLES AND STOPPERS,
comprising a malachite flattened oblong bottle incised and gilt enriched with a guanyin and peacock to one side, the reverse with a wise man and cranes, the shoulders carved with mask terminals; an agate fish-form bottle carved in high relief with wave-form supports; and a lapis lazuli or sodalite flattened bottle carved in relief with birds and branches; together with an amber-imitation glass flattened rounded rectangular snuff bottle carved with two musicians to each side
The largest, 3 ¼in. (8.3cm.) high
THREE CHINESE CARVED HARDSTONE SNUFF BOTTLES AND STOPPERS,
comprising a malachite flattened oblong bottle incised and gilt enriched with a guanyin and peacock to one side, the reverse with a wise man and cranes, the shoulders carved with mask terminals; an agate fish-form bottle carved in high relief with wave-form supports; and a lapis lazuli or sodalite flattened bottle carved in relief with birds and branches; together with an amber-imitation glass flattened rounded rectangular snuff bottle carved with two musicians to each side
The largest, 3 ¼in. (8.3cm.) high
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