Lot 117
A collection of Chinese hardstone snuff bottles
Auction: 24 January 2009 at 10:00 GMT
Description
comprising: a pale green jade bottle carved in the form of a finger fungus, with matched stopper, 6cm high; A turquoise matrix oval bottle and stopper, 5.5cm high; an incised brown jade bottle decorated with water lilies, agate stopper, 6cm high; a brown mottled hardstone snuff bottle, with jadeite stopper, 6.5cm high; a brown mottled hardstone bottle, of pebble form, with later stopper, 7cm high; a mottled hardstone bottle, of pebble form, with coral stopper, 6cm high; a 19th century Chinese white agate snuff bottle with mask ring handles, lapis lazuli stopper, 6.5cm high; a mottled spinach agate snuff bottle carved with a tree and goat, pink stopper, 6cm high; and a black and green agate snuff bottle, carved with fruit and foliage, coral stalk stopper, 7.5 cm high (9)