Two hardstone snuff bottlesIncluding one pale gray bottle with moss-like inclusions, each broad side incised with a band framing scrolling patterns; the second a double rock crystal bottle, well-hollowed, one side carved in relief with two scholars playing chess to the foreground near a bamboo grove and with houses in the background, the verso incised with a poem washed in black, dated bingzi chunri (spring of 1936), the shoulder and foot of the double bottle conjoined by undercut bats.
2 1/2 and 2in (6.4 and 5.1cm) high