A WHITE-GLAZED RETICULATED 'BUDDHIST LIONS' SNUFF BOTTLE AND A FAMILLE ROSE MOULDED 'LUOHAN' SNUFF BOTTLE The 'luohan' bottle with a Qianlong six-character mark, 1780-1850 The white-glazed bottle with a flattened spade-shaped body resting on an oval foot with concave base and rising to a waisted neck, the exterior crisply moulded and reticulated to depict grinning Buddhist lions playfully chasing ribboned brocade balls between two bands of ruyi-heads, a band of leiwen around the neck, the whole covered with a creamy ivory-white glaze, stopper; the 'luohan' bottle of compressed globular form finely moulded in relief and painted with luohan riding lions and an elephant and presenting offerings in a continuous garden landscape against a turquoise ground, the rim gilt. The larger: 7.5cm (3in) high with stopper. (4). Footnotes: 一七八零至一八五零年 白釉鏤雕佛獅紋鼻烟壺及粉彩模印羅漢紋鼻烟壺 「大清乾隆年製」款 Provenance: The Dane collection, USA Robert Hall, London A private collection, Edinburgh, acquired from the above 21st August 2008 (the figurative bottle) Robert Hall, London A private collection, Edinburgh, acquired from the above in July 2004 (the lions bottle) Exhibited, Published and Illustrated: Robert Hall, The Boston Snuff Party, Chinese Snuff Bottles XIII, London, 2008, no.71 (the lions bottle) The Heriot Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Volume II, Edinburgh, 2020, p.43, fig.31 (the figurative bottle) and p.49, fig.37 (the lions bottle) (Published and Illustrated) For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing