Strauss & co - 16 March 2015, Cape Town

296 A Chinese agate snuff bottle, Qing Dynasty, 19th century of mottled caramel tones, the stone with inclusions, minor chip to the footrim, 7,5cm high ; and a Chinese smokey glass snuff bottle, 19th century, the rounded body carved with a pair of masks and handles, the coral stopper carved with a bat and leaf, minor chip to the rim, 6cm high (2) R6 000–8 000 297 A Chinese blue and white snuff bottle, Qing Dynasty, 19th century painted with five crabs, 9cm high ; another, the ovoid body painted with a dignitary on his horse before a full moon, mountainscape and pine tree, 8cm high ; another, painted with a figure leading three camels before a mountainscape, 9,3cm high ; and another blue, white and café- au-lait craquelure-glazed example, painted in underglaze-blue with a landscape, stopper lacking, 8cm high (4) R4 000–6 000 298 A Chinese porcelain snuff bottle, Qing Dynasty, 19th century painted with five cockerels, lacking stopper, 7,2cm high ; another, the front and reverse painted with three figures, the sides with underglaze-blue scrollwork, lacking stopper, 6,3cm high ; another, early 20th century, moulded and painted in relief with a dragon contesting a flaming pearl, chip to the rim, 6,3cm high ; and another, 19th century, the flattened ovoid body carved with a wave pattern and enamelled with a maiden before a willow tree, the reverse with a pavilion, chip to the footrim, 8,5cm high (4) R3 000–4 000 296 297 299 298 106