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Elephant snuff bottle, carved taga nut Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Snuff Bottles: Pre 1980 item# 578573 (stock# 454)
click for details		Terrill C. Smith 510-531-6812 $47.00
A charming elephant with a baby is the subject of this unusual snuff bottle. It is hand carved from Taga nut, a very hard durable fruit core that has been carved for centuries. This material undervalued due to the fact that is somewhat abundant, but it is probably the hardest natural material to carve. This great elephant is about 2 1/4" long. It has a bone top and metal spoon. Great details. About 20 years old.

Carved Taga Horse Snuff Bottle Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Snuff Bottles: Pre 1980 item# 578568 (stock# 878)
click for details		Terrill C. Smith 510-531-6812 $47.00
This unique snuff bottle depicts a resting horse. It is hand carved from Taga nut, also known as vegetable ivory. This material is very hard and durable, it is also very hard to carve. These taga pieces have been carved for centuries and hold up well, it does not decay. This material and subject is unusual for a snuff bottle. This piece was carved about 20 years ago and is 2" long. The stopper is bone with a metal spoon.

Old or Antique Chinese Porcelain Food Container Birds Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Porcelain: Pre 1940 item# 563561 (stock# 577)
click for details		Terrill C. Smith 510-531-6812 $38.00
Very attractive hand decorated porcelain food jar container with lid. It is from China, good bottom mark. It is very old or could be antique. It has natural indication of age. It is about 4 1/2" tall, I obtained this at a very good price for the quality and pass on the low cost in selling it.

Poets and Scholars reverse painted snuff bottle Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Snuff Bottles: Pre 1980 item# 554171 (stock# 565)
click for details		Terrill C. Smith 510-531-6812 $255.00
Outstanding painting in reverse. This glass snuff is larger than most, at 4" by 4". It is handpainted in a Chinese calligraphy style with a lot of reverse painted calligraphy in the design. Traditional Poets and Scholars, seven figures in all. It has a very nice gilded filigree stopper.I beautiful super quality bottle that is about 30 years old.

Red Gold Porcelain Temple Lions Foo Dogs NICE Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Sculpture: Pre 1980 item# 542048 (stock# 565)
click for details		Terrill C. Smith 510-531-6812 $49.00
Very colorful porcelain Temple Lions from China. Like the ones that guard the Palaces and Temples and Homes. This pair will protect any entrance. Porcelain with overglaze red-brown color and applied gold paint. Somewhat crude painting of colors but the overall look is very charming. Not new, no damage. 6" tall and somewhat heavy, so a little more for shipping. Great pair, female with pup and male with orb-ball.

Poo vare vase with Mountain Temple Scene Vintage Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Earthenware: Pre 1940 item# 542038 (stock# 898)
click for details		Terrill C. Smith 510-531-6812 $58.00
I am not sure of origin of this attractive deep carved vase. Probably Japanese, could be Korean. This type of export ware was sometimes called Poo Ware. It has brown glaze on a terracotta body. Deep recession has a wonderful Temple view with tiny shrine. A real collectible, no damage and 6" tall. Probably from the early third of the 20th Century.

Arita Toshikane Boy Girl in Raincoats S&P Spectacular Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1960 item# 532819 (stock# 433)
click for details		Terrill C. Smith 510-531-6812 $875.00
Yes they are salt and pepper, but they were made by one of the finest porcelain-china companies that ever existed. Toshikane in Arita Japan. The company that made these 50 year plus old figures was famous for making top of the line small tiles for jewelry. Faces, fans, flowers, asian icons decorated their high fired china tiles. These tiles in jewelry sell for hundreds of dollars each. I did not know that this company made anything but jewelry insets until I found a pair of foo dogs and then thi ...click for details

Piggy back boys porcelain snuff bottle Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Snuff Bottles: Pre 1960 item# 489676 (stock# 267)
click for details		Terrill C. Smith 510-531-6812 $68.00
Great sculpting and overglaze painting on this porcelain snuff bottle. Two boys piggy back. The topknot pulls out with a brass spoon. This bottle has an antique look, but I do not think it is more than 30 years old. The quality of the workmanship and painting make it a good addition to a collection. It is not marked and it is about 3 1/2" tall. No damage.

Cloisonne Dragon Mask Design Egg Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Enamel: Pre 1960 item# 489672 (stock# 355)
click for details		Terrill C. Smith 510-531-6812 $44.00
This is one of the best designs I have seen on a cloisonne egg. It has four dragon masks in the archaic style. Old cloisonne with colors that are fired in glass fused to copper or bronze base. The color comes to the surface, not like newer cloisonne that has layers of clear over color, or worse yet resin. It is about 2 3/4" tall and it will come with the gold painted wood stand you see in pictures.

Chinese Ink Stone-Pot Carved Stone Phoenix Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Scholar Art: Pre 1980 item# 487808 (stock# 244)
click for details		Terrill C. Smith 510-531-6812 $48.00
This is a lovely shallow stone Ink stone dish. It is a few decades old. Hand carved soft stone with wonderful skill and details. It has a phoenix on the lid. It is about 4" in diameter and 1" tall. The background has a sand like texture. A great piece of Scholars art.

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