A red overlay 'dragon' snuff bottle and a three-colour overlay 'cockerel' bottle18th/19th century
The first of slender form, with deep red overlay on a snowstorm ground carved on either side with a sinuous clambering dragon, flanked by mock mask-and-loop handles; the second with green, red and blue overlay on a white ground depicting a cockerel and its chicks in a garden of tall flowers, stopper. The dragon bottle: 7.4cm (2 7/8in) high (3).