A hornbill and three glass snuff bottles
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A hornbill and three glass snuff bottles

18/19TH CENTURY

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A hornbill and three glass snuff bottles
18/19th Century
A hornbill bottle of flattened rounded square form, carved to one side with two figures under a pine tree; a transparent aubergine glass bottle of flattened pear shape, suffused with bubbles; a glass bottle imitating jadeite, of flattened rounded shape, the pale green ground attractively mottled with cell-like darker flecks; and a dark blue overlay turquoise glass bottle, of flattened rounded form, carved through the overlay with bamboo leaves and plum blossom forming a flower-head, all with stoppers
5.6 - 7.8 cm.
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