Lot 228
Auction: 4 June 2014 at 11:00 BST
£475
Description
THREE SNUFF BOTTLES
comprising: a lavender jade twin bottle, the sides with mask and ring handles, aventurine stoppers; a lavender blue agate ‘cabinet’ bottle carved in high relief with squirrels and vines on one side, the other with bird perched on a flowering branch, blue stopper; and a ruby red glass rectangular bottle with mask and ring handles on a wide splayed foot, green mounted stopper (3)
5.4cm, 9cm and 7.5cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
The Chris Bennett Collection of Snuff Bottles
The lavender blue agate snuff bottle was purchased from Sotheby's, London, 11 June 1997, lot 956.