Two carved duan stone 'dragon' snuff bottles


Inscribed bottle: late 18th/19th centuryThe first a compressed globular bottle standing on a protruding oval foot, each main side carved with dragons separated by faux lion mask-and-ring handles on the narrow sides; the second a well-hollowed, slender-sectioned bottle, the waisted neck rising to a wide mouth, flat lip, culminating in a carefully recessed foot, one side carved with three stylized chi dragons to form a shou character below a small shou medallion, the reverse with an inscription eulogizing the beauty of a bottle made from natural fine stone.2 1/4 and 2 1/16in (5.7 and 5.2cm) high
|Provenanceinscribed bottle: Te Feng Company, Hong Kong, 4 January 1997bottle with raised lion mask-and-ring handles: Chinese Arts & Crafts Limited, Hong Kong, 13 April 2000端石刻龍紋鼻煙壺兩隻 刻詩文壺: 十八世紀晚期/十九世紀