The first, ovoid bottle is decorated with a continuous scene of a scholar and his attendant, the base with an apocryphal Yongzheng mark, 1800-1850; the second, rectangular bottle is decorated on either side with a courting scene, the base with an apocryphal Chenghua mark, 1800-1860; the third, rounded bottle is decorated with a raised panel on either side containing a landscape scene with two figures, with a faint apocryphal Yongzheng mark on the base, 1820-1860.
2⅛, 2⅜ and 2⅛ in. (5.3, 6.1 and 5.3 cm.), high, jade and glass stoppers

The first:
Dennis G. Crow, Los Angeles, California, 1994.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1246.

The second:
Prince Jenkins Antiques, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1993.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 581.

The third:
Robert Hall, London, 2008.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4817.

Rounded bottle: Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Robert Hall, September, 2008.

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