Five porcelain snuff bottlesQing Dynasty
The first moulded and enamelled in copper-red as two fish with a single mouth, 7.5cm high; another ribbed and moulded example with twin mask handles, each side decorated with bat and shou character motifs, 5.5cm high; a third of flattened pear-shape covered all over with copper red, 7.2cm high, plus stopper; another of flattened oviform with mask handles decorated all over with prunus flowers on cafe-u-lait ground, 6.4cm high, plus jadeite stopper; and a baluster vase-shaped snuff with band of diaper pattern between beige and blue grounds, Yongzheng four-character mark (chip to rim and foot), 6.2cm high.
(7).注脚Provenance: a private Scottish collection, and by descent to the current owner.