FOUR SNUFF BOTTLES QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

comprising: a turquoise matrix snuff bottle, and three jade snuff bottles, one carved with shuangxi (double happiness) characters; one carved as a double gourd; and another carved as a lotus pod bundled with scrolls

Purchased in France between 1979 and 1999.

The spatula of the turquoise matrix snuff bottle is broken and lost. The double gourd snuff bottle has a 0.1cm nick to the edge of a vine leaf to the exterior. The original spatula of the lotus and scroll snuff bottle may have been lost and replaced with a wooden one. There is minor nibbling along the edges. There are minute nicks to the shuangxi snuff bottle, including a 0.1cm mark near the top of one shuangxi character, and a small black dot below one of the lion masks. The jade stones are of a slightly more celadon tone compared to the catalogue illustration.
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