Four snuff bottles comprising of an inside-painted glass bottle with insects among rockwork, two glass overlay bottles of flattened rounded shape with various scenes within roundels and moulded mask fixed-ring handles to the sides and a semi-transparent glass bottle painted in bright colours depicting a scene of a woman and child under an umbrella near a river, the reverse with calligraphic inscriptions -- 3in (7.6cm) high max. 19th/20th Century.
Four snuff bottles comprising of an inside-painted glass bottle with insects among rockwork, two glass overlay bottles of flattened rounded shape with various scenes within roundels and moulded mask fixed-ring handles to the sides and a semi-transparent glass bottle painted in bright colours depicting a scene of a woman and child under an umbrella near a river, the reverse with calligraphic inscriptions -- 3in (7.6cm) high max. 19th/20th Century.

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Four snuff bottles comprising of an inside-painted glass bottle with insects among rockwork, two glass overlay bottles of flattened rounded shape with various scenes within roundels and moulded mask fixed-ring handles to the sides and a semi-transparent glass bottle painted in bright colours depicting a scene of a woman and child under an umbrella near a river, the reverse with calligraphic inscriptions -- 3in (7.6cm) high max. 19th/20th Century.
See Colour Plate 7 for one. (4)

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