Description: Two snuff bottles Qing dynasty, 19th century
comprising a red overlay snuff bottle with a shaped quatrefoil medallion and mask handles in relief on the snowflake suffused ground, stopper; and a porcelain snuff bottle painted in sepia and iron-red with birds on slender leafy stems, and flowers and dragonfly on the reverse, stopper en suite, wood stands
(4)
5.4 cm high, 6.4 cm high overall
PROVENANCE
P.C. Lu & Sons Ltd., Hong Kong, the glass snuff bottle, 2 October 1981; Hugh Moss, London, the porcelain snuff bottle, 1 April 1977