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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
 ivory spoon                          40                                          41
 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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