Four blue and white porcelain snuff bottlesLate 19th/20th century
Each with a figural theme: the first of rectangular profile, bearing an apocryphal Chenghua mark; the second of flattened globular form, the underside painted with a pair of castanets, the attribute of the Daoist immortal Cao Guojiu; the third a compressed globular bottle painted with 'Children at Play' and carrying an apocryphal Qianlong mark; the last a meiping-form bottle decorated with the 'Seven Sages in a Bamboo Grove' accompanied by their attendants.
2 5/8 to 3in (6.7 to 7.6cm) high (4).