Two cinnabar lacquer snuff bottles


19th/early 20th centuryThe first bottle meticulously carved to varying depths with a continuous palace scene with pavilions surrounded by lush trees and ornamental rocks, each main side portraying scholars accompanied by an attendant having tea or strolling through the garden, all between a ruyi collars below the straight neck of the bottle and above the oval foot ring enclosing an incised, apocryphal Qianlong mark; the second a compressed spherical bottle carved with two opposing vigorous, front-facing dragons amongst clouds, all against a ground with a densely incised key-fret pattern, the foot ring and lip of bronze, with an apocryphal Yongle mark to the recessed, black lacquered base.2 3/8in (6cm) height of each
|Provenancebottle carved with figures in a palace: Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 21 May 1996, lot 341bottle carved with dragons: Treasure Auctioneer Limited, Hong Kong, 2 October 1999, lot 188十九世紀/二十世紀早期 剔紅鼻煙壺兩隻