Two red overlay 'snowflake' glass snuff bottles


19th centuryEach surmounted with two faux lion mask-and-ring handles to the narrow sides; the first a compressed globular bottle, finely carved with two grazing horses in the shade of a pine tree on each main side; the second an elongated bottle, fluidly carved to display a supple chilong to the front and back, one with its long tail extended and curling to the underside of the bottle to form a foot ring. 3 1/8 and 2 3/8in in (7.9 and 6cm) high
|Provenancebottle carved with horses: Vanessa Holden, October 1998bottle decorated with dragons: Eldred's Auction, Massachusetts, 1990十九世紀 霏雪地套寶石紅料帶鋪首啣環鼻煙壺兩隻