
A Chinese famille rose snuff bottle and two lac burgaute snuff bottles, 19th century
粉彩鼻烟壶及螺钿鼻烟壶(两只),19世纪
the famille rose snuff bottle of moonflask form, decorated on one side with an elder man pulling on his shoe, holding a fruiting peach branch in his mouth, the other decorated with a jovial man pointing to a bird on his head, with stopper; the first lac bargaute snuff bottle of tapering form delicately inlaid with a roundel of flowers, surrounded by a conjoined circle pattern border, with stopper; the second of rounded rectangular form with an inlaid design of flying and standing geese amongst reeds, the base with two gilt characters, with stopper