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A GROUP OF EIGHTEEN SNUFF BOTTLES, including a greyish-green jade bottle of ovoid shape with silver-metal filigree mounts; a green hardstone example of tapering shape with archaistic carving; four Peking glass examples; four agate bottles; a purple quartz bottle, carved as a double gourd; two porcelain bottles; a smokey quartz bottle carved as a carp above cresting waves; a Japanese cloisonne enamel example, of flattened pear shape, decorated with pink prunus of a dark green ground; a Chinese cloisonne enamel example; a carnelian bottle of flattened baluster shape with stylized qilong to sides; a Japanese biscuit example, enamelled with crane and floral sprays (18)