Six snuff bottles


19th centuryIncluding three cinnabar lacquer bottles: one elaborately carved in high relief with scholars and attendants in a landscaped palace, the second a 'double-gourd' bottle, carved with a dragon striding through clouds, the third carved with 'jixiang fugui' characters surrounded by dense flowers; two lac burguaté bottles: one decorated with a rudimentary landscape reserve on each main side, the other of pear-form built on metal, decorated with iridescent flower heads and leafy scrolls; the sixth a cloisonné enameled bottle adorned with a chrysanthemum and prunus flowers.2 1/4 to 3in (5.7 to 7.6cm) high
|Provenancepear-form lac burguaté bottle with a flower-heads design: Dorothea Esty, 1972cloisonné enameled bottle: Eldred's Auction, Massachusetts, 2013cinnabar lacquer bottle with figures and a palace: the Honorable. Judge Edgar Bromberger Collection, Doyle's, New York, 19 March 2012, lot 46inscribed cinnabar lacquer bottle: Cowan's Auction, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2013十九世紀 景泰藍、黑漆螺鈿、及剔紅鼻煙壺六隻