SEVEN OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES
Chinese, early to mid-20th century, glass. Including:
1. Dark olive green overlay to a bottle of opaque body, each side depicting a bat over a beribboned shou character; smoky quartz stopper.
2. An opaque, slightly flattened bottle flanked with ring masks depicting in brown overlay a tree beneath a bridge to either side; each with figure crossing the bridge, one with four-character mark upper left and the opposing with a crescent moon, a pair of magpies in the tree aside. Amber and metal stopper and spoon.
3. A softly faceted, opaque bottle decorated with opposing chilong dragons within an octagonal frame; tiger's eye stopper with spoon.
4. A milky, ovate bottle having ruby overlay carved with bats above two coins and The Three Abundances of pomegranate, Buddha's hand citron, and peach; red stopper with metal collar.
5. A small, opaque bottle decorated in delicate russet-toned overlay of cranes flanked by foliage to either side; coral cabochon to the brass collared stopper and spoon.
6. Ruby red overlay bottle finely carved with prominent mask shoulders flanking rooster and chickens with butterflies near small rock masses sprouting with foliage, the domed coral stopper with thick, metal collar.
7. Blue overlay on opaque white bottle in the wufu pattern of five bats (five blessings) encircling a shou character to either side; cobalt glass stopper and wooden spoon.
Tallest bottle: 2.7 in. (6.9 cm.), with stopper: 3.1 in. (7.9 cm.); total 344 grams