A GROUP OF NINE AGATE AND GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES, 19TH CENTURY AND LATER, including an agate ovoid bottle well-carved to reveal maidens admiring butterflies by rockery, the reverse with man catching fish; an agate bottle of double gourd shape; a flattened ovoid bottle of soft honey tone carved with Buddhistic lion masks and fauz rings to shoulders; a greyish-brown agate bottle of flattened rectangular form carved with panels to each side; an ovoid interior painted glass example decorated with warriors in battle; a large rounded rectangular bottle decorated with pavillion in rocky landscape and bird on flowering branch to reverse; a rounded rectangular bottle with fisherman in rocky landscape, a boating couple to reverse; another interior painted glass example decorated with a seated Guanyin in rocky grotto, the reverse painted with a sage seated by a waterfall, a snake wrapped around his body; together with a blue overlay on white ground glass snuff bottle, the rectangular form with sides tapering inward carved with birds and flowering branches (9)

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A GROUP OF NINE AGATE AND GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES, 19TH CENTURY AND LATER, including an agate ovoid bottle well-carved to reveal maidens admiring butterflies by rockery, the reverse with man catching fish; an agate bottle of double gourd shape; a flattened ovoid bottle of soft honey tone carved with Buddhistic lion masks and fauz rings to shoulders; a greyish-brown agate bottle of flattened rectangular form carved with panels to each side; an ovoid interior painted glass example decorated with warriors in battle; a large rounded rectangular bottle decorated with pavillion in rocky landscape and bird on flowering branch to reverse; a rounded rectangular bottle with fisherman in rocky landscape, a boating couple to reverse; another interior painted glass example decorated with a seated Guanyin in rocky grotto, the reverse painted with a sage seated by a waterfall, a snake wrapped around his body; together with a blue overlay on white ground glass snuff bottle, the rectangular form with sides tapering inward carved with birds and flowering branches (9)

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