A Chinese quartz bottle and stopper

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A Chinese quartz bottle and stopper
carved with guei dragons -- 4¼.in (10.9cm) high; a porcelain bottle painted in iron red with fish on a liver-red ground -- 3.in (7.6cm) high; two blue, white and copper red bottles painted with Immortals and dragons, and figures on horseback -- 3½.in (8.9cm) high; a red lacquer bottle carved with vases of flowers and bowls of fruit -- 2¾.in (7cm) high; an enamel bottle with flowersprays; a bone bottle carved with a seated sennin; a hornbill bottle in the form of a beak carved with a dragon -- 4¼.in (10.8cm) high; a bone bottle carved with a coiled dragon among clouds; a soapstone netsuke of Shoki -- 3.in (7.6cm) high; a sectional bone manju nestuek carved to the interior with figures among trees and rockwork -- 2¾.in (7cm) diam; and a jadeite and ivory cylindrical needle-holder. (12)

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