A Five-Color Overlay Bubble-Suffused Colorless Glass Snuff Bottle
A Carved Spinach-Green Jade Snuff Bottle and a Carved Brown Crystal Snuff Bottle
Gold ornament at the front of a cap inlaid with pearls and jadeite
An Enameled Stoneware Snuff Bottle |
AD 1750 - 1820 Of flattened form with flat lip and recessed, flat foot surrounded by a footrim, the main sides carved through the transparent pink, green, yellow and reddish-pink overlay to the bubble-suffused ground with four sinuous chi dragons, the lower section encircled by a further pair of dragons with sprigs of lingzhi fungus carved from the transparent blue overlay, glass stopper with gilt-metal collar. |
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