A GROUP OF FOUR CHINESE VARIOUS CARVED AGATE AND HARDSTONE SNUFF BOTTLES, comprising a moss agate bottle with scattered white splotches on a black ovoid body and sides centering a large leaf and gourd vine in shallow relief, surmounted by a domed stopper reversing to a short recessed oval foot, height: 2"; one of compressed tapering form in vertically striped dark mocha brown and neutral colors, with sides centering a large leafed vegetable opposite long leaf foliage in shallow relief, surmounted by an associated green banded conforming lapis stopper, raised on a short recessed oval foot, height: 2 3/8"; a compressed rounded rectangular variegated mocha brown and neutral agate bottle, with one side centering a shallow relief bucking horse opposite a low roofed structure beneath a tall palm set before a distant mountainous landscape, surmounted by an associated malachite stopper, reversing to a short recessed oval foot, height: 1 7/8"; one of compressed tapering rectangular form in a dark green and neutral speckled granite hardstone, with a short conforming flat rimmed neck surmounted by an associated green speckled white banded and lapis stopper, reversing to a short recessed oval foot, height: 2 3/8".

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