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AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE WITH A QILIN AND A AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE WITH AN IDYLLIC CLOUD AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE WITH
BAT LANDSCAPE RELIEF RELIEF HANDLES
Agate, caramel color with dark brown veining Agate, dove gray and caramel color Cloud-agate, gray-white
China, Qing Dynasty China, later 19 Century China, Qing Dynasty
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Very well and wide hollowed body with wide Narrow mouth and straight lip. Slightly recessed Very well and wide hollowed body with SNUFF BOTTLE WITH INCISED TWO ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLES GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE WITH FIGURES AND
mouth and straight lip. Slightly recessed base with base with a flat foot rim. Both sides show an narrow mouth and straight lip. Slightly DECORATION Rock crystal ANIMALS
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a flat foot rim. Ingeniously carved relief, which ingeniously carved relief, which considers the recessed foot and flat foot rim; side handles Milk glass, quartz China, 19 Century Glass in imitation of white jade
considers the natural veining of the stone. The natural veining of the stone. Motive of a scholar in relief, worked in the shape of lion heads. China, Republic Period, early 20 Century China, 18 /19 Century
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front side with the depiction of a Qilin and a bat. in front of an atmospheric river landscape with Expressive color gradient in the stone, Each with a very well and wide hollowed body. Narrow
pagoda. Verso with depiction of a carriage in a reminiscent of cloud formations. Incised decoration with characters and mouth with a straight and a sweeping lip. Narrow mouth, straight lip and slightly recessed
Shape: Rectangular snuff bottle with rounded mountainous landscape. flower patterns on the front and reverse. Recessed base, partly with a flat foot rim. The wall of base with a flat foot rim. Glass in imitation of
corners Shape: Body in a rectangular rounded shape the oval snuff bottle shows a fine grain and on the side jade. The front side with and immortal on his
Stopper: Tiger’s eye with a bone spoon Shape: Circular snuff bottle Stopper: White quartz cabochon with an Shape: Flat body with profiled shoulder on handles in the shape of mystical creatures. The wall of the donkey and a child. Verso two boys with different
Dimensions: HEIGHT with stopper 8 CM, WIDTH Stopper: Rose colored glass with bone-spoon ivory spoon flared foot smaller snuff bottle is decorated with reserves, therein a attributes and a flying crane. The sides with an
mouth 0.8 CM, WIDTH neck 2.2 CM Dimensions: HEIGHT with stopper 6.5 CM, Dimensions: HEIGHT with stopper 7.5 CM, Stopper: Quartz frog under a flower. ornamental flowers and birds.
Condition: Good condition with only slight signs of WIDTH mouth 0.72 CM, WIDTH neck 1.7 CM WIDTH mouth 0.81 CM, WIDTH neck 2.2 CM Dimensions: HEIGHT including lid 6.7 CM
age and wear Condition: Very good condition with hardly any Condition: Good condition with only slight Condition: Good condition; the decor is Shape: Oval elongated and shoulder accented Shape: Flat rectangular snuff bottle
Provenance: From a Spanish private collection, signs of age and wear signs of age and wear; the spoon is glued slightly rubbed Stopper: Silver and gilt with carnelian and coral with a Stopper: Coral with ivory spoon
Bilbao Provenance: From a Spanish private collection Provenance: From a Spanish private collection Provenance: From a Spanish private bone and a metal spoon Dimensions: HEIGHT with stopper 8 CM, WIDTH
collection Dimensions: HEIGHT with stopper 7-8.5 CM, WIDTH mouth 0.7 CM, WIDTH neck 2 CM
Estimate EUR 300,- Estimate EUR 300,- Estimate EUR 200,- mouth 0.6-0.72 CM, WIDTH neck 1.7-2 CM Condition: Good condition with slight signs of age
Starting price EUR 150,- Starting price EUR 150,- Starting price EUR 100,- Estimate EUR 100,- Condition: Good condition with slight signs of age and and wear; the spoon shows loss of material and
Starting price EUR 50,- wear such as little loss of material on the edges chips as well as traces of glue marks are visible at
Provenance: From a Spanish private collection the mouth
Provenance: From a Spanish private collection
Estimate EUR 200,-
Shape: Of upright, flattened Starting price EUR 100,- Estimate EUR 200,-
form with rounded shoulders Starting price EUR 100,-
and triangular section
Stopper: White jade with a
vinyl platelet, nice stained
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Dimensions: HEIGHT with INSIDE PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL VESSEL WITH STAGS AND DEERS
stopper 6.7 CM, WIDTH GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE Rock crystal, wood, silver
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mouth 0.5 CM, WIDTH neck Glass China, 19 Century
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1.7 CM Shape: Flattened China, 20 Century
Condition: Perfect rectangular form Wide mouth with a flared and profiled lip. The sides
Provenance: From an with outstandingly Depicting a Chinese are decorated with a tapered reserve, therein a relief
Austrian private collection well-balanced outside dignitary and a poem at depiction with stags among pine branches. In front
Literature comparison: FINE proportions the back. Signed. of the vessel we find a stag and a deer on a rock.
CHINESE ART. Bonham’s, Stopper: Coral on a The sides are flanked with elephant head handles
May 16th 2013, LONDON, stained walrus ivory Shape: Bulbous oval with free hanging eyelets. With a matching crystal
lot 204. ASIAN DECORATIVE platelet shape lid and mounted on a wooden base with silver wire
ART. Bonham’s, June 20th Dimensions: HEIGHT with Stopper: Coral with ornaments.
2012, San Francisco, lot 8162. stopper 7.6 CM, WIDTH qilong in relief
(for two comparable bottles) mouth 0.7-0.8 CM, Dimensions: HEIGHT Shape: Vase
Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles WIDTH neck 1.6 CM with stopper 8 CM Dimensions: HEIGHT bottle approximately 8 CM,
from the Gerry P. Mack Condition: Perfect Condition: Good WIDTH mouth 2.8 CM
Collection. Christie’s, 4th Provenance: From condition Condition: Lid is missing; slight signs of age and
October 1999, lot 105. (for an Austrian private Provenance: Form wear such as small chips to the mouth rim and
an almost identical bottle) 36 collection a German private breakage to antlers of the stag
Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong A WHITE JADE ‘RHOMBUS BORDER’ SNUFF Literature comparison: collection Provenance: From a Spanish private collection, Bilbao
35 Kong Museum of Art, 1997, BOTTLE Chinese Art. Sotheby’s,
A PLAIN WHITE AND RUSSET JADE SNUFF BOTTLE lot 157. (for a similar bottle) Jade. China, Qing Dynasty December 3rd 2015, Estimate EUR 200,- Estimate EUR 300,-
Jade. China, Qing Dynasty Hugh Moss, Victor Graham HONG KONG, lot 661. Starting price EUR 100,- Starting price EUR 150,-
and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury Carved in slight relief to depict a continuous (for two white jade
One side left flat to preserve clouds of deep russet of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Vol. Rhombus border design. Good mouth, neck bottles showing other
‘skin’ within the pure white of the stone under a gently I, Jade, pp. 32-33, lot 9. (for a and lip. Elongated, slightly sprawling cylindric continuous border
undulating plane, while the other side revealing the similar bottle). neck, flat top and wide mouth, the inner designs).
very white nephrite itself. Excellent hollowing. Short cylinder is not absolutely symmetric (1 mm
neck with flat top and very small mouth. The base of Estimate EUR 500,- deviation at the top). The base of oval shape Estimate EUR 500,-
oval shape with raised foot rim. Starting price EUR 250,- with thick raised foot rim. Starting price EUR 250,-

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