Delicate lovely Yellow Porcelain Snuff Bottle Dragonfly

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 1970: item #532374
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Hand details are outstanding on this porcelain snuff bottle. Back with poem, front with dragonflies in a garden. Silver spoon, bottom signed. Just under 3" tall. This hand workmanship is not recent and this bottle is an outstanding piece.

Carved glass Crab basket Snuff Bottle Delicate

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 1980: item #532371
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Very delicate and skilled carving of red on milk white glass. Chinese, not old but not recent. Woven texture basket with handles and crabs with sea plant design. Very attractive and a smaller size of 2" tall. Brass with red glass top.

Dark Green Jadeite Jade Chinese Carved Pendant

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese Contemporary: item #529595
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Dark green Chinese pendant, with Chinese pattern and character carved on it. Genuine jadeite jade from Burma. It will comes with a certificate shows that it is A-jade, which means all natural, none treatment. 18Kt yellow gold clasp. The pendant's width is 53mm, height 65mm(with the clasp), depth 6mm, weight 158ct totally.

Boys Play Overglazed Copper Enamel Snuff Bottle

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 1990: item #528205
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Nice painting and colorful details are seen on this enameled copper snuff bottle. It is about 10 years old, hand painted in China and signed on bottom. Traditional theme of boys playing, but addition of a jumping toad makes this bottle a bit unique. It is 3" tall. Good hand work will soon be a lost art, so this is a smart addition to a collection.

Scholar on Mule with servant Porcelain Snuff Bottle

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 2000: item #510809
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A very nice quality of painting in overglaze colors is found on this bottle. It is about a decade old, from China and signed. The painting is of a Scholar on a Journey with his boy servant. This is overall a very good buy for the price. Good hand painting makes this a smart choice for a collection. No damage and about 3 1/4" tall, a very elegant shape to the bottle.

Beautiful Li Dragon Carved Glass Snuff Bottle

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 1990: item #510686
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This beautiful carved Peking glass snuff bottle has 4 Li Dragons and other good luck symbols. It is layered white on green on dark green on a white milk glass base. It has a bowenite jade cap with silver spoon. It is just over 2 3/4" tall. It is probably 10 years old. A very nice quality all hand crafted at a very fair price.

Green Jadeite Jade Chinese Hand-carved Pendant

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese Pre 1990: item #510669
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Green jadeite jade pendant, with a Chinese traditional string, two dragons on it. It goes with an authentic certificate, showing that it is all natural, without any treatment, which called A type jade. The pendant's width is 48mm, height 33mm, depth 7.7mm, weights 161ct, string length 10cm.

Miniature Ivory Masterpiece Snail on Radish

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese Pre 2000: item #510659
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This small masterpiece of carving gives evidence that there are still great carvers of Ivory. It is mastadon [mammoth] Ivory and it is legal. It is a beautiful piece of Ivory and the carving equals the quality of the Ivory. It is in the Netsuke style, but it does not have the traditional holes for a cord. It is meant as a decoration in the miniature style. It is from China and it is not old. It is 1 1/2" tall and a solid piece, with a good deal of weight to it. It is a snail atop a radish. A won... Click for details

Qirin Qilin Horned Foo Dog Pair Porcelain China

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese Pre 1990: item #506900
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This pair of beasts is probably meant to be a pair of Qilin, horned lions of prosperity in China. They do have a foo dog look. Quite nice, lots of hand modeling of porcelain. Marked on bottom, no damage. A decade or two old. 4 1/4" tall

Chinese Terracotta Lion Foo Dog Guardian Mask

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese Pre 2000: item #496481
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Here is a very colorful Guardian Lion Mask. He will protect a home or garden with great powers. He is terracotta glazed clay, newer piece from China. He is very well made and will go indoors or out if protected from wet freezes. He is about 6 1/2" accross and about 2 1/2" deep. A great looking piece.