Two snuff bottles, Qing dynasty, 19th century | 清十九世紀 鼻煙壺一組兩件

‘Sea-spray' rock crystal snuff bottle:

Collection of Dr. Louis Walmsley.

Vanessa F. Holden, New York.

Dr. Louis Walmsley, one of the earlier owners of this bottle, was a Canadian missionary stationed in Chengdu during the 1930s until the arrival of the Communists in 1949, when he returned to Canada. Many of his other Chinese works of art can be seen in The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.