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Lot 1035
Four Chinese Porcelain Snuff Bottles
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
19th century or earlier, includes first a bottle hand painted in underglaze blue and copper red with Chinese warriors, inscribed to the side, cap inset with a square stone perhaps coral (good estate condition), second a bottle with hand painted landscape in underglaze blue, blue cup, underside with Artemisia leaf mark (missing interior spoon), third a bottle hand painted in famille rose palette with nine peaches on a tree above a craggy rock with a bat flying on reverse, green hardstone cap, underside with four character Qianlong mark in iron red (good estate condition), and fourth a bottle hand painted in underglaze blue and dark brown copper red with Chinese warriors, white hardstone cap, underside with six character Yongzheng mark (good estate condition; a few small nicks to edge above foot.)

Tallest 3 3/4 in.

From the Estate of the late International Interior Designer Terry Parsons, Pittsboro, North Carolina