A group of six porcelain snuff bottles


19th/early 20th centuryIncluding three enameled porcelain bottles, one painted with geese, with Guangxu mark and of the period (foot ring chipped), the second painted with a katydid in a garden, the reverse inscribed with a two-line poem with three painted seal marks, with an apocryphal Qianlong mark on base (staining), the third of globular form, with a long cylindrical neck, shaped openwork handles, painted with five dragons amongst clouds in underglaze blue against an yellow enameled ground, the underside with an apocryphal Kangxi mark; the fourth a circular porcelain bottle painted in iron-red with two identical dragons, the base with an apocryphal Qianlong mark (extensive staining to base); two molded and enameled porcelain bottles, one modeled as a squirrel and grapes, the other a dual-layered bottle, the outer layer molded and carved with the Eighteen Luohan, some details as well as the lip and foot pad heightened with gilt paint, with a Qianlong mark on the base. [6]2 1/8 to 2 7/8in (5.4 to 7.3cm) high