A GROUP OF FIVE MINIATURE SNUFF BOTTLES, comprising two glass overlay bottles, one of baluster shape carved through a layer of red glass with the Three Friends of Winter, pine, prunus and bamboo below a constellation in Yangzhou-school style, to an opaque white ground; the other through a layer of black glass with a prunus branch, to a pink ground; a pink-glazed bottle of gourd shape (neck possible reduced and mounted in silver; a pale green-glazed bottle of leaf shape; and a pale celadon jade bottle of circular shape with panels, 18th/19th Centuries -stoppers (5)

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A GROUP OF FIVE MINIATURE SNUFF BOTTLES, comprising two glass overlay bottles, one of baluster shape carved through a layer of red glass with the Three Friends of Winter, pine, prunus and bamboo below a constellation in Yangzhou-school style, to an opaque white ground; the other through a layer of black glass with a prunus branch, to a pink ground; a pink-glazed bottle of gourd shape (neck possible reduced and mounted in silver; a pale green-glazed bottle of leaf shape; and a pale celadon jade bottle of circular shape with panels, 18th/19th Centuries -stoppers (5)

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