One 'pudding stone' and three other mineral snuff bottles
Qing DynastyThe conglomerate stone bottle of flattened oviform and raised on a hollow oval footrim, 5.4cm high; a flattened spade-shaped example on oval polished foot, carved with shou characters to each side, the stone possibly labradorite, 5.6cm high; an oviform 'pebble' bottle on polished oval footrim, engraved with bixi to each side, 5.7cm high; and a duan stone snuff with engraved design of rocks issuing prunus to one side and long inscription to reverse, on a spreading oval and concave footrim, 6.8cm high.(4).
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Provenance: a private Scottish collection, and by descent to the current owner.