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A LARGE CARVED AGATE SNUFF A HARDSTONE-INSET GILT FILIGREE- AN ENAMELLED YIXING SNUFF BOTTLE
BOTTLE AND STOPPER MOUNTED WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE 19th century
20th century 18th/19th century The flattened circular bottle with raised
Well hollowed, with a concave mouth rim and The flattened bottle with a recessed foot rim panels and enamelled with landscape
flat foot, carved in relief to the exterior with and flat mouth rim, the stone of a very even scenes, the sides with foliate motifs.
a young scholar and his attendant greeting white hue, mounted with silver gilt filigree 5cm (2in) high
a fisherman on a sampan, matching agate work of a foliate design embellished with
stopper. turquoise and coral beads, the stopper with £500 - 800
9.5cm (3 3/4in) high including stopper (2). a turquoise finial. HK$5,200 - 8,300
6.4cm (2 1/2in) high (2). CNY4,400 - 7,100
£1,500 - 2,000
HK$16,000 - 21,000 £3,000 - 5,000 798
CNY13,000 - 18,000 HK$31,000 - 52,000 A FAMILLE ROSE ‘RECUMBENT
CNY26,000 - 44,000 ELEPHANT’ SNUFF BOTTLE
794 Late 18th/early 19th century
A CARVED ‘LOTUS AND PEONY’ JET Provenance: An English private collection Well-modelled with an iron-red and gilt-
BOTTLE by repute decorated zun set atop its back.
18th/19th century Purchased in Sotheby’s in 1976, by repute 4.5cm (1.3/4in) long.
The pear-shaped bottle finely carved in
low relief to the exterior with peony flowers 796 £800 - 1,200
issuing from rockwork, the reverse with a HK$8,300 - 12,000
lotus spray, with a gilt-bronze dragon-form A GREEN JADE ‘BUTTERFLY AND CNY7,100 - 11,000
stopper. 6.8cm (2 5/8in) high (2). MELON’ SNUFF BOTTLE
19th century
The melon-form bottle carved to the The auspicious subject of an elephant
£2,000 - 3,000 exterior in low relief with tendrils, leaves carrying a vase forms the rebus ‘taiping
HK$21,000 - 31,000 and a butterfly, associated green hardstone youxiang (太平有象)’, which stands for ‘When
CNY18,000 - 26,000 stopper, box. there is peace, there are signs’. Compare
6cm (2 3/8in) high (2). a related elephant example illustrated by
Provenance: An English private collection, B.C.Stevens, The Collector’s Book of Snuff
purchased in Sotheby’s, 2 February 1981, by £1,000 - 1,500 Bottles, New York and Tokyo, 1976, pl.308
repute HK$10,000 - 16,000 and 310.
CNY8,800 - 13,000

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