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A GROUP OF FOURTEEN SNUFF BOTTLES, 19TH CENTURY AND LATER, including an amber well-hollowed flattened teardrop shape example carved with bats in flight above leafy fronds; an amber rounded example carved with qilong and stylized clouds; a turquoise bottle of flattened pear shape, uncarved, with scrolling handles to shoulders, stopper en suite; a porcelain flattened circular example with lotus and cockerels to reverse within a raised circular rib; a molded porcelain ovoid bottle with Immortals amidst clouds, apocryphal mark under foot; a molded porcelain ovoid bottle with figures in battle, apocryphal mark under foot; a rounded porcelain bottle enamelled with dragons and flaming pearl above waves, neck and shoulders decorated with patterned bands; a porcelain flattened spade-form bottle decorated with children at play, the sides, neck and shoulders with scrolling lotus and foliage, apocryphal mark of Qianlong under foot; a porcelain underglaze blue and red bottle with continuous scene of warriors with their swords raised in mountain landscape, the neck and shoulders with keyfret and cell-patterned bands; a porcelain blue and white-glazed high shouldered bottle decorated with figures in courtyard scene, apocryphal mark of Qianlong under foot; an ivory bottle carved with a band of figures in a courtyard, scrolling border below ruyi band, stopper en suite; an ivory cylindrical snuff bottle carved with figures in panels between scrolling borders, stopper en suite; together with an ivory snuff bottle carving with flowering peony spray to one side, stopper en suite; and a pale whitish-green pebble form bottle with carved decoration (14)