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A blue and white cylindrical
snuff bottle
19th century
Painted with the animals of the zodiac;
and a carved and painted ivory snuff bottle
and stopper depicting gentlemen and boy
attendants in pavilion gardens amongst pine
and rockwork, late Qing Dynasty.
The larger bottle 8cm (3.1/8in) high.

28 £500 - 800
CNY4,800 - 7,700 HK$6,000 - 9,600
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30 ≈
30 A famille rose ‘Buddhist lion’
14 | Bonhams snuff bottle
Jiaqing seal mark and of the period
Well modelled in the form of a standing
Buddhist lion with a ribbon-tied brocade
ball, the body depicted with precise details
including its facial features, limbs, curling
mane, boss-decorated backbone and
bifurcated tail, brightly enamelled in blue,
green, yellow, pink and red with its bulging
eyes picked out in black, jadeite stopper.
6.5cm (2½in) high (2).

29 £1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,600 - 14,000 HK$12,000 - 18,000
Various Owners Provenance
A European private collection, and thence by
28 descent.
A banded agate snuff bottle Snuff bottles in the form of a Buddhist lion
19th century with a brocade ball, as in the present lot, were
Of rounded rectangular form, set on an oval popular in the Qing Dynasty, and examples
footrim with recessed base, the stone with are included in well-known museums and
horizontal linear markings of creamy brown, private collections. See a similar example,
grey and greyish brown tones, encircling Daoguang, illustrated by R.Hall, Chinese Snuff
the body, tiger’s eye stopper; and a further Bottles XI: The Snowy Peaks Collection, Hong
agate bottle carved with beast mask and Kong, 2005, pl.47. Compare also an example
fixed ring handles, the pale grey stone with of a lion and cub snuff bottle, Qianlong,
abstract dark brown and pale russet markings illustrated by R.L.Hobson, The Later Ceramic
and striations, later incised Qianlong four- Wares of China, London, 1925, pl.LXIX, fig.3.
character mark to base. Another related example in the Victoria and
The larger bottle 6.3cm (2.1/2in) high. Albert Museum, London, is illustrated by
H.White, Snuff Bottles from China: the Victoria
and Albert Museum Collection, London, 1992,
p.246, pl.114. A further example, dated to the
late 18th century, formerly in the collection
of Mr. and Mrs. Neal Hunter, is illustrated by
B.C.Stevens, The Collector’s Book of Snuff
Bottles, New York and Tokyo, 1976, p.103,
pl.349.

£700 - 1,000
CNY6,700 - 9,600 HK$8,400 - 12,000