Two porcelain 'Horses' snuff bottles


19th century but bearing apocryphal reign marksThe first of tapering oviform painted in underglaze blue with the Eight horses of Mu Wang and a cloud-head band at the neck, Shunzhi four-character mark, old collector's mark '1814' above foot, bottle 7cm high, stopper; the second of cylindrical form decorated with five horses and a willow tree in famille rose enamels, Yongzheng four-character mark.bottle 7.1cm high, stopper (4).
|By repute the snuff bottles in this collection were mainly purchased during the 1970s from Hugh Moss, London.