Page 232 - November 2016 London Bonhams asian Art

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A GROUP OF HARDSTONE AND
542 ORGANIC SNUFF BOTTLES
Qing Dynasty and later
543 Comprising: three turquoise bottles; one
230 | BONHAMS mottled brown jade double bottle; a coconut
bottle with an incised poem and apocryphal
Qianlong mark; two horn bottles; one gourd
or other material double bottle. The largest:
9.2cm (3 5/8in) high (7).

£1,000 - 1,500
CNY8,600 - 13,000 HK$10,000 - 15,000

542 Y
EIGHT BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN
SNUFF BOTTLES
Qing Dynasty and later
Including: a cylindrical bottle with warriors
from Romance of the Three Kingdoms,
stopper; a copper-red and underglaze blue
cylindrical bottle, apocryphal Yongzheng six-
character, stopper; a double ‘dragon’ bottle,
apocryphal Yongzheng four-character mark.
8.5cm (3 1/4in) high (16).

£800 - 1,200
CNY6,900 - 10,000 HK$8,000 - 12,000

543 Y
AN IRON-RED ENAMELLED ‘DRAGON’
SNUFF BOTTLE AND A GROUP OF
SNUFF DISHES
19th century and later
The globular, flattened bottle with two writhing
five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls
above waves, gilt-metal mounted coral
stopper; together with a group of snuff dishes
comprising three underglaze-blue dishes, a
iron-glazed dish and two small hard stone
dishes, box.
6cm (2 3/8in) high (9).

£800 - 1,200
CNY6,900 - 10,000 HK$8,000 - 12,000