R9653

Chinese yellow glass snuff bottle of imperial-style, moulded and carved with a standing caparisoned elephant with his head turned to the side, wearing a long and elaborate saddle cloth, the jardiniere form neck forming the howdah above a high-relief ruyi-scroll band.

Jiaqing/Daoguang, circa 1800-1860.

2 15/16 inches, 7.5 cm high without stopper, coral coloured stopper.

Chinese pale celadon jade carving of a goose with its young seated on a large lotus leaf, each holding the branch of the lotus flower in its beak, with detailed work to the wings and the neatly carved round eyes.

2 1/4 inches, 5.7 cm long.

Qianlong, 1736-1795.

Chinese superbly hollowed spinach green jade nephrite snuff bottle, carved on both sides in relief with recessed panels, one with a fisherman seated on rockwork beside a stream, casting his rod beneath a prunus tree, the other with a man seated in a boat holding an oar above waves, beside rockwork and beneath a pine tree.

Pink glass stopper.

2 ½ inches, 6.3 cm high without stopper.

1800-1860.