Details
The first bottle, 1830-1880, is decorated in copper-red and underglaze blue with egrets and lotus, below five copper-red bats on the shoulder. The second bottle, 1790-1850, is decorated with a continuous scene of two ferocious dragons on a ground of stylized clouds, the base with an apocryphal Qianlong mark. The third bottle, 1830-1890, is decorated with the `Eight Horses of Mu Wang,' the base inscribed ya zhi ('elegantly made').
3¼, 2⅛ and 2 in. (8.2, 5.4 and 5.1 cm.) high, agate, glass and stone stoppers

Provenance
First bottle:
Robert Kleiner, London, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4974.

Second bottle:
Robert Hall, London, 2010.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5025.

Third bottle:
Robert Kleiner, London, 2010.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5087.
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