A European private collection of snuff bottles (lots 319-333)






A group of five enamelled porcelain snuff bottles


19th centuryComprising: a moulded Buddhist lion-form bottle, stopper; an underglaze-red decorated blue and white cylindrical bottle with a scene from 'Journey to the West', stopper; another smaller underglaze-red decorated blue and white bottle, stopper; a cylindrical bottle with two monkeys at play, stopper; a small bottle with Guandi and Wenchang, Jiaqing seal mark and possibly of the period.The largest: 8.8cm (3 1/2in) high (9).