A porcelain snuff bottle molded with 18 Luohan around the body and painted with famille rose enamels, supported on a raised foot rim with recessed base marked "Qian Long Nian Zhi" in iron red seal script
1820-1880
3.2 inches tall without stopper
A bamboo root snuff bottle carved as a pod with two smaller pods, a stem and leaves, well hollowed with a small mouth opening to one side
1750-1900
1.65 inches
Condition: small portion of stem missing between the two smaller pods
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carved with a phoenix and two peaches against lotus scroll; set into a silver mount with pin and safety chain
Ming Dynasty
1.6" x 1.2" x .3"
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An unusual Guangzhou enamel on copper snuff bottle of flattened and elongated ovoid form, decorated in the famille rose palette on each face with two scholars resting upon a bench surrounded by a border of pink lotus scroll above and beneath friezes of blue lappets. Matching Stopper. 2.75 inches tall. 1730-1800.
A gray and black jade toggle very finely carved with a scaly dragon and clouds, the markings in the stone nicely picked out to depict the dragon's head and whiskers, pierced at one end to be strung as a toggle
approximately 1.6 inches diameter
Late Ming to Early Qing Dynasty
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of icy white colour with green markings often referred to as "moss and snow"; the circular form with sloping sides, flattened top and supported on a raised foot with a recessed base; the cover carved with a central shou character surrounded by 5 bats
19th Century
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An mottled honey colour agate snuff bottle carved as a Buddha's hand citron (foshou) with numerous tendrils, a bat etched to one side, leaves, vines and a smaller fruit to the side, well hollowed. Malachite stem form stopper. 19th Century. 2.3 inches without stopper.
An openwork-carved agate pendant with duck, carp and lotus leaf, the material with orange, gray and black "calico" markings
Late Qing Dynasty
2 inches X 1.4 inches X .25 inches
Condition/Note: triangular crystalline inclusion to the center
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A Chinese "Moss Agate" Snuff Bottle of flattened rectangular form carved with pseudo lion mask handles at the sides; the beige material with white dendritic inclusions, supported on a raised foot rim with a recessed base
A red lacquer on metal snuff bottle of flattened ovoid form, carved on one face with a young female playing the flute in a garden setting, continuing on the reverse with a female figure holding a fan, the upper body with ruyi and the lower with lappets, supported on a raised foot rim with a recessed base.
1780-1860
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