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Auction House:BonhamsNumber of lots recorded:174
Sale Title:Asian ArtLots with images:174
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:127
Date:3-May-2017
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A Chinese painted ceramic 'pig' snuff bottle, Qianlong four-character mark, 5.2 cm long. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Four Chinese carved hardstone and glass snuff bottles, 19th century and later, varying heights from 5.2 cm to 8.5 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese miniature painted enamel snuff bottle, Qianlong four-character mark, 3.8 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted-enamel 'European figures' snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 5.5 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted-enamel snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 4.8 cm and 5.5 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted-enamel 'Floral' snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 5.2 cm and 5.5 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese carved rock crystal snuff bottles, 5.4 cm and 5.6 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection. Note: Bottles with faceted panels were made in majority of glass, and less frequently in jade and hard stone. The shape, popular during the Qianlong period, is a nice tribute to the Palace workshop
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Two Chinese painted glass snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 4.2 cm and 4.5 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted glass snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 5 cm and 5.5 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted glass snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 5.4 cm and 6 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Four Chinese painted glass snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, varying heights from 4.5 cm to 5.5 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese inside-painted 'George Washington' rock crystal snuff bottle, attributed to Ma Shaoxuan, 7.5 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese inside-painted 'Three Kingdoms' agate snuff bottle, signed Yu Nong, by Hou Yingzi (1971 - ), dated by inscription 2008, 7.5 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese inside-painted 'tiger' rock crystal snuff bottle, attributed to Liu Shouben, dated by inscription 1969, 7.5 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection() ''
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A Chinese inside-painted 'landscape' agate snuff bottle, unsigned, with three seals of the artist, 7 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese carved rock crystal snuff bottles, 19th century to Republic period, 6.3 cm and 7.5 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese miniature glass snuff bottles, 3.2 cm, 4.2 cm, 5.2 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection. Note: The shape of a raised faceted panel forms part of a distinctive group of faceted shape, many of which are of this small size, and the majority are of glass. Heavily produced during the Qianlong period, a small handful of the group has been made during the later period, a witness to the continuing output lead by the Palace glassworks
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A bamboo and bamboo veneer 'kui-dragon' snuff bottle, 6 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection. Bamboo veneer (tiehuang) literally 'pasted yellow', sometimes also known as zhuhuang ('bamboo yellow') is made by stripping and flattening the thin inner lining of the cortex. It is a distinctively less grainy material than the outer skin of the cortex, and usually of a paler colour. It is an art form that was possibly developed in Jiangxi province, although once the art form was developed, it could…
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A Chinese multi-colour glass overlay 'longevity and fortune' snuff bottle, Republic period, 6 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection. . Compare an almost identical bottle in the Bloch collection, see No. 114, Chinese Snuff Bottles: A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 18 March to 8 June 1994
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Two Chinese painted opaque yellow glass snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 5.2 cm and 5.3 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted yellow glass snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 5.4 cm and 6.3 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Four Chinese painted glass and glass overlay snuff bottles, Guyue Xuan and Qianlong mark, varying heights from 5.2 cm to 6.7 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese painted milky glass snuff bottles, Guyue Xuan and Caihua Tang mark, varying heights from 4.2 cm to 5.5 cm (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted opaque yellow glass snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 5.7 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese painted opaque yellow glass snuff bottles, Guyue Xuan mark, 4.5 cm and 5.5 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese multi-colour glass overlay snuff bottle, Yangzhou school, 19th century, 6.7 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of three Chinese glass overlay snuff bottles, Republic period and later, 5.3 cm, 6.2 cm, 6.8 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of three Chinese carved ruby-red glass snuff bottles, Late Qing to Republic period, 5.2 cm, 6 cm, 6.6 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of four Chinese ruby-red glass snuff bottles, Republic period and later, varying heights from 5.2 cm to 7.2 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese white and iridescent glass snuff bottles, 5 cm, 5.3 cm, 7 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese 'sandwich' glass snuff bottle with white and apple-green splashes, 19th century, 5.00 cm high. Provenance: Ex Paul Braga collection. NSW private collection Paul Braga
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A Burmese Shan style lacquered and carved wood figure of a standing Buddha, 54.5 cm high. Provenance: NSW private collection, acquired in Bangkok during the 1970s
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A gilt bronze figure of Chakrasamvara Tantra, 31 cm high. Provenance: NSW private collection, acquired locally on 11 Oct 1984 from Alan Landis Antiques, on commission for Joseph Neuman (receipt)
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A Chinese moulded Qingbai 'phoenix and peony' bowl, Yuan dynasty, 17. cm diam. Provenance: NSW private collection
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