Four blue and white porcelain snuff bottles19th century
Including two of identical flattened form, each flanked with a pair of raised animal mask-and-ring handles, one featuring Tao Yuanming and his attendant holding a chrysanthemum branch, the other depicting Wang Xizhi with a boy holding a geese; the third a cylindrical bottle, one painted with a sage and his young boy attendant under a tree; the fourth an elongated ovoid bottle with applied crackle glaze, painted with a bearded old man and a group of self-willed boys.
2 1/4 to 3in (5.7 to 7.6cm) high (4).注脚Provenance
'sage and attendant' bottle: Chinese Arts & Crafts Ltd., Hong Kong, 13 June 1994
'Tao Yuanming and attendant' bottles: King Feng Arts Co., Hong Kong, 4 April 1998
crackle glazed 'figural' bottle: King Feng Arts Co., 19 June 1999