Two carved white jade snuff bottles


19th/20th centuryThe first a well-hollowed oval bottle, carved in the shape of a cup and cover; the second a thin-sectioned circular bottle supported on two small bosses, incised to one side as a pocket watch, the verso decorated with a wind-swept flowering plant within a scrolling border, the narrow shoulders carved in high relief and undercut with two designed handles.2 and 2 1/8in (5.1 and 5.3cm) high
|Provenanceoval bottle in the shape of a cup and cover: Hong Kong Auctioneers & Estate Agency Limited, 8 October 1995, lot C045'pocket watch' bottle: Dragon House, San Francisco, 7 June 1999十九/二十世紀 白玉鼻煙壺兩隻