Lot 120
A collection of Chinese glass snuff bottles
Auction: 24 January 2009 at 10:00 GMT
Description
comprising: a carved black overlay white bottle decorated with birds and flowers, green stopper, 6.5cm high; an overlay glass bottle decorated in blue, green and pink with carp, matched metal and coloured stone stopper, 6.5cm high; an opaque glass table bottle with green, ochre, black, red and pink overlay crab design, amber stopper, 9.5cm high; a green overlay white glass bottle decorated with flowers, 7.5cm high; a ruby glass overlay bottle decorated with peony blossom, hardstone stopper, 9cm high; together with a small modern Chinese internally painted snuff bottle decorated with man on horseback, 5cm high; a modern 'First International Snuff Bottle Society/10th Anniversary Souvenir, 1979'; a blue glass cased, internally decorated snuff bottle; and another, tall faceted rectangular section snuff bottle, internally painted (9)