A group of three porcelain snuff bottles19th/20th century
Including two cylindrical bottles: one painted in enamels and gilt highlight with two male figures at ease, standing near a bird cage, one figure in an elaborate vest holding another bird case and a flower sprig, the underside inscribed with a Xianfeng mark, and probably of the period; the second painted in copper-red and underglaze blue depicting a scholar seated by a pile of books at a desk, looking at another figure sleeping in a canopy bed next to a window open to a lush garden, with an apocryphal Yongzheng mark to the base; the third a flattened ovoid bottle painted in bright enamels depicting a long-tailed bird perching on rocks amidst leafy peony blossoms, the underside with an apocryphal Guyue Xuan mark.
2 5/8 to 3 1/8in (6.7 to 8cm) high (3).