A European private collection of snuff bottles (lots 319-333)






A five-colour overlay glass 'ancient playthings' snuff bottle and a two-colour overlay glass snuff bottle


18th/19th centuryThe first bottle with a multitude of floral sprays and flowerpots holding blossoming sprigs, beast mask handles, two-character 玩古 wan gu mark, stopper; the second flattened bottle carved in yellow and blue overlay with a pastoral scene of scholars and attendants about a villa by a river, stopper.The largest: 6.6cm (2 7/8in) high (4).