Two amber snuff bottles

Description:

China, 19th century
H. 5 - 5,7 cm
A pebble-shaped bottle, carved from translucent deep red-orange amber with natural flow lines and internal spangles, the lid is missing. / A figuratively sculpted bottle, carved from rich honey- to reddish-brown amber. Elaborately decorated in high relief to all sides depicting the Daoist Immortal Liu Hai with his three-legged wealth toad nestled within flowering branches, with a matching stopper en suite.
From an old German private collection - Very minor chipping to the edges