Lot 6045. A carved green and russet jade snuff bottle, 1720-1820. Estimate US$ 6,000 - 9,000 (€5,500 - 8,200). Photo: Bonhams.

Well-hollowed and with a narrow mouth, the rounded rectangular bottle with a tapering neck slightly contracting towards a flat lip, oval foot ring, utilizing the dramatic earthy brown inclusions in the evenly-hued green stone, finely carved to each side with a monkish figure seated on a cloud-encircled rocky platform, one subduing an advancing tiger, the other holding an alms bowl in his right hand, his left hand pointing at a dragon descending from a dense cloudbank, the narrow sides with two raised, finely defined lion mask-and-ring handles. 2 3/4in (7cm) high

Provenance: Hugh Moss Limited, London, 16th November 1982

Note: The two figures on this bottle represent two of the Eighteen Arhats: Fuhu Luohan (taming tiger Luohan), and Xianglong Luohan (taming dragon Luohan).

Bonhams. CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES FROM TWO PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTIONS, NEW YORK