A GROUP OF FIVE AGATE SNUFF BOTTLES, 19TH CENTURY AND LATER, including a banded agate example of rounded shape with a slightly everted neck; a shadow agate example of rounded rectangular shape carved with figures in a pavillion in a mountainous landscape, the reverse carved with cranes, stopper; a chalcedony agate example of flattened rounded form carved with a prancing horse; a rounded bottle of soft honey tone carved with masks to shoulders; and another example of flattened moon flask shape with conforming panels (5)

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A GROUP OF FIVE AGATE SNUFF BOTTLES, 19TH CENTURY AND LATER, including a banded agate example of rounded shape with a slightly everted neck; a shadow agate example of rounded rectangular shape carved with figures in a pavillion in a mountainous landscape, the reverse carved with cranes, stopper; a chalcedony agate example of flattened rounded form carved with a prancing horse; a rounded bottle of soft honey tone carved with masks to shoulders; and another example of flattened moon flask shape with conforming panels (5)

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