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Various Chinese snuff bottles including a famille rose enamelled opaque white glass bottle
of compressed form painted with scenes of a lady at exercise in a garden setting, stopper; a similar famille rose enamelled opaque white glass snuff bottle painted with a seated man reading before a tree, the reverse with a fisherman standing on a raft holding a fish before figures in a pavilion, stopper; another famille rose enamelled opaque white glass snuff bottle painted with scenes of a bearded official and an attendant amongst pine and rockwork, stopper; a famille rose enamelled opaque white glass snuff bottle of cylindrical form painted with a seated official holding a fan beside attendants in a flowering garden before pine issuing from rockwork, stopper; and a famille rose enamelled opaque white glass snuff bottle of baluster form painted with a continuous scene of two grazing horses before trees and rockwork, stopper -- 2½in. (6.6cm.) high max., Qianlong sealmarks, early 19th Century, (small flake chip to neck of first bottle, minor wear).
See Colour Plate 29. (5)
of compressed form painted with scenes of a lady at exercise in a garden setting, stopper; a similar famille rose enamelled opaque white glass snuff bottle painted with a seated man reading before a tree, the reverse with a fisherman standing on a raft holding a fish before figures in a pavilion, stopper; another famille rose enamelled opaque white glass snuff bottle painted with scenes of a bearded official and an attendant amongst pine and rockwork, stopper; a famille rose enamelled opaque white glass snuff bottle of cylindrical form painted with a seated official holding a fan beside attendants in a flowering garden before pine issuing from rockwork, stopper; and a famille rose enamelled opaque white glass snuff bottle of baluster form painted with a continuous scene of two grazing horses before trees and rockwork, stopper -- 2½in. (6.6cm.) high max., Qianlong sealmarks, early 19th Century, (small flake chip to neck of first bottle, minor wear).
See Colour Plate 29. (5)
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