Strauss & co - 6 March 2017, Cape Town

105 270 Three Chinese cameo agate snuff bottles, Qing Dynasty, late 19th century the first carved in relief to the russet skin with a young boy and his hounds in a mountainscape, with low foot rim, stopper, signed, 7,7cm high ; the second carved in relief to the russet skin with a full moon and a seated sage beneath a pine tree viewing a pair of geese, with low foot rim, stopper, 8,3cm high ; and the third carved in relief with a pair of contesting dragons, stopper, 7cm high (3) R –  271 Three Chinese agate snuff bottles, Qing Dynasty, late 19th century the first carved in relief with two sages and their attendant beneath a pine tree, heightened with a full moon and a bat in flight before a rocky mountainscape, stopper, 8,8cm high ; the second carved with three monkeys in a peach tree, with low foot rim, stopper, 7,3cm high ; the third carved in relief with the figure of an Immortal proffering a peach to a young boy, with low foot rim, stopper, 6,5cm high (3) R –  272 A Chinese agate magnum snuff bottle, late 19th/early 20th century carved in relief with a scene of two seated gentlemen playing Go viewing two horse riders before a rocky mountainscape, with a pine tree, full moon and a bird with lingzhi in the distance, with low foot rim, stopper, 12,7cm high R –  272 270 271