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Auction House:
Art+Object
Number of lots recorded:54
Lots with images:53
Prices available:54
Category:
Snuff Bottles
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** A pale celadon jade handled vase and cover, carved with ruyi-head design, together with a white jade snuff bottle, a larger grey jade snuff bottle, and a grey jade miniature hu vase with wood stand. The first. Height 10.5 cm. Provenance: From the Leo… ***
*** Chinese modern white jade snuff bottle. Height 6.5 cm ***
*** Chinese tortoiseshell snuff bottle, Guangxu mark and probably of the period (1875-1908), the sides incised with lines of calligraphy. Height 5.7 cm ***
*** 20th century Chinese hornbill snuff bottle, carved as a leaping carp. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 8 cm ***
*** Four Chinese snuff bottles, featuring one carved from agate, another from amethyst, height 7.5 cm max ***
*** Chinese shadow agate snuff bottle, late 18th/early 19th century, carved in low relief with butterflies and prunus branches, carved footrim, coral stopper. Height 7.5 cm ***
*** Chinese jadeite double gourd snuff bottle, probably 18th/19th century, carved with qilin on scrolling double-gourd branches. Height 7 cm ***
*** Chinese amethyst carved snuff bottle and stopper. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 8.5 cm ***
*** Chinese red-overlay white Peking carved glass snuff bottle depicting a laughing Budaito to the front and a chilong dragon coiled to the back. Height 7.7 cm ***
*** Chinese inside painted snuff bottle, depicting birds and flowers, the inscription reads: ‘To Song Qingling (wife of sun Yat-sen), winter 1930 by Tang Zichuan’. Height 7.2 cm ***
*** Chinese fossiliferous limestone carved snuff bottle. Height 6 cm ***
*** Chinese banded agate snuff bottle, with carved taotie mask handles. Height 5 cm ***
*** 18th/19th century Chinese jet snuff bottle, carved with basket weave pattern. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 6.8 cm ***
*** Chinese underglaze blue and copper red porcelain snuff bottle, Yongzhen mark to the base. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 7.5 cm ***
*** Chinese red-overlay white Peking carved glass snuff bottle depicting Shoulao holding a peach in front of a deer and an attendant. Height 9 cm ***
*** Chinese jadeite carved snuff bottle displaying auspicious symbols. Height 6 cm ***
*** Chinese inside painted cut glass snuff bottle, signed Ding Erzhong (1865-1935), dated 1916, painted in grisaille with erotic scenes to the front and verso. Height 8 cm ***
*** Japanese ivory okimono. of a chick hatching from the egg and an ivory snuff bottle incised with a river landscape and calligraphy lines and a wooden fruit-shaped snuff bottle. The first, length 4 cm ***
*** 19th century Chinese underglaze blue and enamel porcelain snuff bottle. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 7.5 cm ***
*** Large Chinese inside painted snuff bottle, signed Ye Zhongsan (1869-1945), dated to autumn 1903, depicting insects and cabbages. Height 7.2 cm ***
*** Chinese inside painted snuff bottle, signed Ye Zhongsan (1869-1945) and dated 1932, dedicated to Lan Ping (stage name of Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong’s wife). Height 7.5 cm ***
*** Chinese inside painted snuff bottle, signed Yan Yutian (c. 1888-1918), decorated with a child on an elephant and lines of calligraphy on a gilt ground. Height 7 cm *** N/A
*** Large Chinese inside painted snuff bottle, signed Ding Erzhong (1865-1935) and dated 1903, depicting craned amongst plants. Height 8 cm ***
*** 19th century Chinese famille rose porcelain snuff bottle, painted with roosters. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 7.5 cm ***
*** Chinese jadeite snuff bottle, with flat globular body. Height 6 cm ***
*** Chinese famille rose porcelain snuff bottle, early 20th century, moulded to the front with an erotic scene, apocryphal Qianlong mark to the base. Height 7.5 cm ***
*** Chinese inside painted snuff bottle, signed Yan Yutian (c. 1888-1918), decorated with vividly coloured birds and flowers. Height 7.3 cm ***
*** Chinese inside painted snuff bottle, 20th century, featuring a Republican Navy General. Height 8.5 cm ***
*** Chinese Peking opaque yellow glass snuff bottle, of double gourd shape. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 6.5 cm ***
*** A group of ten Chinese snuff bottles. Height 8 cm max ***
*** 20th century Chinese mother of pearl snuff bottle. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 6.3 cm ***
*** Chinese carved smoky quartz snuff bottle. Height 5.5 cm ***
*** Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, Watherhill, New York, limited reprint edition 1994, hardcover and case ***
*** 19th century Chinese famille rose porcelain snuff bottle, painted with a tiger. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 7.5 cm ***
*** Two Chinese Peking carved glass snuff bottles, of yellow and pink colours. Height 8.5 cm max ***
*** Chinese hornbill snuff bottle, 20th century, carved as a leaping carp. Height 8 cm ***
*** A Chinese russet and celadon jade snuff bottle, carved with a qilin and a bat, height 7 cm ***
*** 19th century Chinese famille rose porcelain snuff bottle, with figural design. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 8 cm ***
*** Chinese smoky quartz carved snuff bottle. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 5.5 cm ***
*** 19th century Chinese underglaze blue and cafe au lait glazed porcelain snuff bottle. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 7.5 cm ***
*** Late 19th/early 20th century Chinese underglaze blue and cafe au lait glazed porcelain snuff bottle. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 7.5 cm ***
*** Chinese Peking opaque glass snuff bottle, with silver mounts with dragon design. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 7 cm ***
*** A Chinese blue and white porcelain snuff bottle, painted with a scrolling dragon. Height 6.5 cm ***
*** Chinese green celadon jade snuff bottle, carved with a frog on a lotus leaf, ivory stopper. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 5.3 cm ***
*** A Chinese underglaze blue and copper red porcelain snuff bottle, painted with a scrolling dragon. Height 7.5 cm ***
*** A Chinese porcelain snuff bottle, painted in ink on an ivory ground with a scholar on a river landscape, with wood stand. Height 6 cm ***
*** Chinese grey celadon jade snuff bottle, carved as a cicada on a leafy fruit. Provenance: from a private collection. Width 6 cm ***
*** 19th century Chinese famille rose porcelain snuff bottle, with figural design. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 8 cm ***
*** Chinese glass in imitation of agate snuff bottle. Height 5.5 cm ***
*** Large 19th century Chinese grey agate snuff bottle, with wood stand. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 6 cm ***
*** A Chinese coral-like snuff bottle, and a carving of a boy with a peach. Height 7.5 cm ***
*** A Chinese agate snuff bottle, carved with a fish in a lotus pond. Height 5.5 cm ***
*** Chinese grey celadon jade snuff bottle, incised with archaic script. Provenance: from a private collection. Height 6 cm ***
*** Chinese underglaze brown and blue porcelain snuff bottle, 19th century. Height 5.5 cm ***