19c Chinese layered agate SNUFF BOTTLE

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 1900: item #798321

19th century Chinese agate snuff bottle of classic shape carved out of beautiful layered stone. Superb work, clever use of stone’s natural features, very pleasant surface, in excellent condition. Very well hollowed, agate stopper, ivory spoon. Height with stopper 2 15/16 inches.

A Rare Chinese Under-glaze Blue and White Snuff

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 1900: item #795554

This interesting snuff bottle decorated in underglaze blue and white with the scene of a Peking opera, it is rare and hard to find. 3.5 inch high. Made during the late of 19th C. Condition is very good.

19th C Peking Glass Snuff Bottle Frog and Coral

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 1910: item #795216
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this is a green Peking Glass snuff bottle with a frog motif. The stopper is of coral with an ivory spoon. The frog is well done with an engaging face. From tip of the nose to tip of the rear end, 6 cm. width is 4 cm, height is 4 cm. There are no chips or cracks. Fine condition.

19c Chinese jade boulder SNUFF BOTTLE BAT

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 1900: item #794160

19th century Chinese jade snuff bottle carved out of a natural jade boulder, with a low relief carving of a bat. The word for a bat being a homonym for happiness, the bottle is an implied wish for happiness. Very well carved, excellently hollowed, pleasant matte surface, beautiful white/celadon/gray stone, jadeite stopper, ivory spoon, traces of snuff inside. Height with stopper 2 1/4 inches.

19c Chinese jade SNUFF BOTTLE

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 1900: item #794151

19th century Chinese celadon jade snuff bottle of classic elegant shape, very well carved and hollowed. Very pleasant matte surface, beautiful stone with gray areas, later and not very well matched jadeite and glass stopper, ivory spoon. Height with stopper 2 7/16 inches.

Antique porcelain blue and white Snuff Bottle

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 1920: item #793901

Antique porcelain blue and white Snuff Bottle H:10cm

19c Chinese ivory SNUFF BOTTLE

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 1900: item #793897

18c Chinese ivory SNUFF BOTTLE H:10cm Condition: Very good.

Chinese Inside-Painted Glass Snuff Bottle Ma Shaoxian

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 1900: item #790849

A rare inside painted glass snuff bottle, signed Ma Shaoxian, dated mid-spring, jihai year (1899), painted in the capital, one red seal: Zhao. The painting depicts boys studying on one side and butterflies on the other. The bottle is of rounded-rectangular shape and in very good condition, without any chips, cracks or restoration - The stopper has a small chip, as can be seen in the photos. Christie’s Auctions sold a bottle with almost identical writing and decoration of boys from the Blanche B... Click for details

A collection of 6 small SNUFF SAUCER

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 1900: item #789068
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A 18-19th cent. collection of 6 small saucers to use for snuff. Made of different materials and of different sizes and shapes: ivory, bone, mutton fat jade, speckle jade, brown jade and deer antler. Diam. between 3,3 cm to 5,5 cm. Condition: very good, but few tiny chips on the mutton fat saucer.

19th cent. mottled mutton fat SNUFF BOTTLE

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 1900: item #789062
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A snuff bottle of flattish, rounded shape carved from mottled brown-grey mutton fat. Decorations on both sides in low relief depicting garden scenes w. prunus, bamboo, lingzhi etc. Finely hollowed. Stopper of coral and ivory; silver spoon. Qing, 19th cent. H 7 cm. Condition: Excellent.