A group of ivory snuff bottles17th/18th century and later|Comprising: three uncarved bottles, of compressed form, of varying honey and milky white tones, stoppers; a fluted, floriform cylindrical bottle, set on four short feet; and a double gourd form pendant, pierced through the centre, carved with blossoming prunus and rockwork.|The floriform bottle 7.5cm (3in) high. (8).|Provenance|Compare the fluted cylindrical bottle to an example, dated Shunzhi-Kangxi, in Chinese Ivories from the Kwan Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990, pp.248-249, no.117, and the flattened globular bottles to a bottle, dated Jiaqing-Xianfeng (796-1861), illustrated in the same volume, p. 348, pl. 182.