SNUFF BOTTLES, LOTS 433-500

Tuesday 23 September

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433 A Shadow Agate Snuff Bottle, of a rounded form, the ‘shadow’ inclusions relief carved to depict a figure leading a bixie on a leash, with ruyi clouds and flying bats above, having a tourmaline and jadeite stopper cover. Height 2 inches. $800-1,200

434 A Cloisonné Enamel Snuff Bottle, of compressed, rounded form, decorated with circular medallions above a lappet band, on a blue ground, raised on an oval foot, with matching stopper cover. Height overall 2 5/8 inches. $400-600

435 Two Enamel Over Metal Snuff Bottles, comprising a cloisonné enamel double gourdform snuff bottle depicting stag and deer and an enameled silvered metal double-gourd form bottle with a threaded scoop cover, together with a fourpart medicine bottle. Height of first overall 3 1/8 inches. $300-500 436 Two Tibetan Snuff Bottles, each of silver overlaid horn with inset hardstone and coral beads, having filigree work over the shoulders, the covers attached with chains. Height of taller overall 3 5/8 inches. $200-400

437 A Pair of Tibetan Snuff Bottles, each of compressed flask form, having carved cinnabar lacquer panels to both faces with relief carved peonies, mounted in silver metal with cast beast mask and ring handles at the corners, with inset turquoise, retaining their original covers, one mounted on a wood stand. Height overall 4 1/8 inches. $200-400

438 A Group of Four Hardstone Snuff Bottles, comprising three agate examples including a naturalistic pebble example with a coral branch scoop handle, and an amethyst quartz bottle carved as a cicada. Height of amethyst bottle 2 1/2 inches. $300-500 439 Two Snuff Bottles, the first of opal and carved to depict a lobed gourd with leafy tendrils, a smaller gourd and foxes carved to the side, with a coral branch scoop handle, with a mother-of-pearl example carved to depict a gourd suspended from a leafy branch with matching scoop handle, raised on a pierce carved wood stand depicting lingzhi. Height of first 2 inches. $200-400

440 A Group of Four Snuff Bottles, comprising a root amber example, a lacquered wood double gourd example, a horn example and a wood or bamboo example with gilt painted foliate decoration. Height overall of first 2 7/8 inches. $200-400

441 Two Jade Snuff Bottles, the first a double bottle carved to depict two bitter melons suspended from a leafy branch, with coral branch stopper handles, the second of tapering flask form and having relief carved prunus and bird to one side, the reverse with bamboo and lingzhi, the sides with pierced tubular handles. Height of taller 2 5/8 inches. $400-600

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442 A Molded Porcelain Eighteen Luohan Snuff Bottle, having polychrome enamel and gilt painted decoration, the eighteen figures depicted in colorful robes and each bearing his traditional attribute, with four-character apocryphal Qianlong mark to the underside, the mouth rim painted with gilt paint, and with a coral stopper. Height 2 7/8 inches. $600-800

443 Two Snuff Bottles, comprising an interior painted glass example depicting the Eastern Han eunuch Cai Lun, with inscription and cyclical date mark corresponding to 1929, the reverse depicting an architectural structure in a setting with pine trees on a craggy mountain top with mountains and waterfall in the distance, with a glass cover, with beast mask and ring handles, with a rock crystal example of squared form. Height of first 3 1/2 inches. $800-1,200

444 A Polychrome Enamel Porcelain Snuff Bottle, of squared form, the painted decoration on each side a reversible, two-face illusion depicting a foreigner with curly hair and tricorn hat, the underside with four-character Gui You Nian Zhi cyclical date mark corresponding to 1812 or 1873. Height 2 1/2 inches. $200-400 445 Two Hardstone Snuff Bottles, the first a lapis example having relief carved decoration depicting figures with a horse under scrolled clouds, the reverse with figures boating beneath pines, with a coral stopper cover, the second a green hardstone pebble with a coral branch stopper handle. Height of first 1 7/8 inches. $300-500

446 Two Polychrome Enamel Porcelain Snuff Bottles, each of squared form, the first depicting Liu Hai with the toad, with calligraphic inscription, the second depicting a sage seated in a grove with attendants about him. Height of taller 3 1/4 inches. $150-250

447 Two Commemorative Porcelain Snuff Bottles, the first inscribed Norman Bethune Canada and China 1890-1939 and depicting Bethune in a molded, raised portrait to the reverse, the sides with inscriptions commemorating the Snuff Bottle Society 1971, the underside marked No. 26 in Chinese, the second depicting the Queen of England in molded, raised profile, the sides inscribed for the Snuff Bottle Society, the underside dated with cyclical date mark corresponding to 1975. Height overall of first 2 7/8 inches. $100-200 448 Two Interior Painted Glass Snuff Bottles, the first of compressed flask form, depicting a figure seated on a water buffalo, with attendant, the reverse depicting a man horseback and gazing up at a bird flying overhead, the second of faceted bottle form, depicting a bird in a rockery, the reverse depicting traditional vessels, each with coral stopper covers. Height of taller 2 5/8 inches. $300-500

449 A Lavender Jadeite Snuff Bottle, of compressed flask form with relief carved fish decoration. Height overall 2 1/8 inches. $100-200

450 Two Jasper Ladies’ Snuff Bottles, one of a mottled rose colored stone and the other of a mottled cream stone, each with metal mounted collars around the neck and metal scoops. Height of each 1 3/8 inches. $100-200

451 Two Ladies’ Snuff Bottles, the first of rock crystal and relief carved with a phoenix, raised on a squared foot, the second of druzy. Height of taller 1 3/8 inches. $300-500

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452 A Group of Three Snuff Bottles, comprising a turquoise example, an amethyst quartz example and an enameled porcelain example with polychrome enamel erotic decoration. Height of tallest 3 3/8 inches. $500-700

453* A Porcelain Snuff Bottle, with underglaze blue and red, depicting figures in a courtyard, raised on a hardwood stand. Height 3 1/8 inches. Property from the Collection of James S. Frankenberger, Downers Grove, Illinois $200-400

454* A Tibetan Metal Mounted Horn Snuff Bottle, together with a tortoiseshell example. Height 2 1/4 inches. Property from the Collection of James S. Frankenberger, Downers Grove, Illinois $300-500 455* Two Snuff Bottles, the first an ivory and horn example, raised on a hardwood stand, the second a lac burgauté example. Height of taller 3 inches. Property from the Collection of James S. Frankenberger, Downers Grove, Illinois $300-500

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457* A Peking Glass Snuff Bottle, of ovoid form depicting a man riding a water buffalo, raised on a hardwood stand. Height 2 1/2 inches. Property from the Collection of James S. Frankenberger, Downers Grove, Illinois $100-200

458* A Peking Glass Snuff Bottle, of a compressed, rounded form, the five-color overlay depicting lotus, chrysanthemum and peonies with butterflies at the sides over a snowflake ground, with a dark brown foot ring, and with an agate cover. Height 2 5/16 inches. Property from the Collection of James S. Frankenberger, Downers Grove, Illinois $1,000-2,000 459* A Cloisonné Enamel Snuff Bottle, depicting deer and cranes in a landscape, raised on a hardwood stand. Height overall 3 7/8 inches. Property from the Collection of James S. Frankenberger, Downers Grove, Illinois $600-800

460* A Reticulated Polychrome Enamel Porcelain Snuff Bottle, of double gourd form with a blue and white patterned ground, with the sanduo or three abundances in shaped reserves to the upper portion, the lower pierce carved with bats and flowers around red shou medallions, revealing the blue and white interior vessel, raised on a splayed foot with plantain leaves with biyutang zhi to the underside. Height overall 3 1/4 inches. Property from the Collection of James S. Frankenberger, Downers Grove, Illinois $1,000-2,000

461 A Carved Agate Snuff Bottle, with a flowering prunus branch and bird carved to the red skin. Height 2 inches. $800-1,200

462 A Rock Crystal Snuff Bottle, of compressed, flask form with carved lion mask and ring handles, having an agate stopper cover. Height 2 inches. $1,000-2,000

463 A Rock Crystal Snuff Bottle, of rounded form with figural carving depicting a Daoist immortal, having a rose quartz cover. Height 2 5/8 inches. $2,000-4,000

464 A Carved Agate Snuff Bottle, decorated with a duck and a dragonfly. Height 2 11/16 inches. $600-800 465 An Agate Snuff Bottle, Height 2 1/8 inches. $800-1,200

466 A Group of Three Snuff Bottles, comprising a blue Peking glass example and two fossilized coral examples. Height of tallest 2 1/4 inches. $300-500

467 An Agate Snuff Bottle, of compressed flask form having a mottled amber hue with shadow inclusions, with an oval foot ring and a hardstone stopper cover. Height 2 5/8 inches. $200-400 468* An Interior Painted Rock Crystal Snuff Bottle, Ye Xiaofeng, depicting peasants at various pursuits, with inscription and signed with one seal, with hardstone stopper lid. Height 2 1/8 inches. Property from the Estate and Trust of Elise Reeder Olton, Boca Raton, Florida $500-700

469 A Carved Amber Snuff Bottle, of squared form having relief carved floral rosette, with a matching stopper cover. Height 3 inches. Property from the Collection of Wilma Franco, Greenfield, Wisconsin $300-500

470 A Tibetan Silver Snuff Bottle, of moon-flask form depicting recumbent water buffalo, with coral and turquoise inlay. Height 3 1/3 inches. Property from the Collection of Wilma Franco, Greenfield, Wisconsin $200-400

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472 A Carved Jadeite Snuff Bottle, of a mottled apple green to spinach green stone, of a rectangular form raised on an oval foot ring, the bottle carved in relief with buddhistic lions, strands of coins and bats, one lion breathing ruyi-form flames, with a hardstone stopper cover. Height 1 3/4 inches. $800-1,200

473 Two Hardstone Snuff Bottles, the first of carved agate with squared sides, the second of goldstone, with bamboo on one side and a carp on the other. Height of taller 2 3/8 inches. $400-600

474 A Group of Three Peking Glass Snuff Bottles, each having red overlay decoration, the first depicting a bird beneath a pine, the second a tree of double-gourds, the third depicting fish. Height of tallest 2 11/16 inches. $600-800

475 A Group of Four Glass Snuff Bottles, the first of a rich, opaque green, the second transparent with red splash decoration, the third and fourth decorated to simulate hardstones. Height of tallest 2 1/8 inches. $500-700

476 Two Reverse Painted Glass Snuff Bottles, the first decorated with goldfish and a mountainous landscape to the reverse, the other depicting boatmen in mountainous landscapes. Height of taller 3 7/8 inches. $500-700

477 Two Snuff Bottles, the first of rock crystal with relief carved peonies, the second of agate, with bamboo, lingzhi and butterfly motifs. Height of taller 2 3/4 inches. $1,000-2,000

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478 A Group of Three Blue and White Porcelain Snuff Bottles, two depicting figures and the third a double cylinder with two apocryphal four-character Yongzheng marks. Height of tallest 2 3/8 inches. $500-700

479 Two Blue and White Porcelain Snuff Bottles, each shaped like meiping, one having a lapis stopper cover and the other with a hardstone cover. Height of taller 2 7/8 inches. $400-600

480 A Group of Three Porcelain Snuff Bottles, each having iron red and blue decoration, comprising a cylindrical example and an ovoid example depicting figural scenes, the third depicting Buddhistic lions. Height of tallest 3 3/8 inches. $1,000-2,000

481 A Group of Three Blue and White Porcelain Snuff Bottles, two of cylindrical form and depicting deer in landscapes, the third a double bottle with figures in a garden setting. Height of tallest 3 inches. $500-700

482 A Group of Three Porcelain Snuff Bottles, one with polychrome enamel depicting cockerels, the second a warrior and two bats, the third depicting a soldier. Height of tallest 3 inches. $300-500

483 Two Snuff Bottles, the first of metallic goldstone, the second with a veneer of mother-of-pearl. Height of taller 2 3/8 inches. $200-400

484 Two Mongolian Snuff Bottles, the first with a jadeite archer’s ring incorporated in the body, the other of flask form, each with coral and turquoise inlay to the silver bodies. Height overall of taller 3 inches. $500-700

485 A Group of Three Mongolian Snuff Bottles, each with dragon or phoenix decoration and with inlaid decoration including coral, turquoise and lapis. Height overall of tallest 3 5/8 inches. $800-1,200

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486 A Carved Wood Snuff Bottle, of cylindrical form having relief carving depicting a figure boating in a sampan through a landscape with pines and foliage. Height overall 3 1/2 inches. $100-200

487 A Cloisonné Enamel Snuff Bottle, of gourd form, depicting vessels holding flowering branches and scholar’s desk objects. Height overall 3 1/4 inches. $200-400

488 A Smoky Quartz Snuff Bottle, of squat, rounded form with carved bamboo basket motif. Height 2 inches. $500-700 489 A Carnelian Agate Snuff Bottle, of pebble form with a coral stopper handle. Height 2 3/8 inches. $600-800

490 Two Carved Amethyst Quartz Ladies’ Snuff Bottles, the first of squared form with relief carved prunus and cracked ice decoration, the other of compressed flask form with beast ring handles. Height of taller 2 inches. $500-700

491 Two Carved Snuff Bottles, the first of amethyst quartz and in the form of a Buddhistic lion, the second of lapis and in the form of an elephant. Width of wider 2 inches. $800-1,200 492 A Group of Three Snuff Bottles, including one yixing example shaped like an eggplant, a turquoise example and a carved nut example. Height overall of tallest 2 1/4 inches. $700-900

493 A Group of Three Snuff Bottles, the first a glass example shaped like a fish, the second of red amber, the third of a milky white glass simulating stone. Height overall of tallest 3 1/4 inches. $1,000-2,000

494 Two Hardstone Snuff Bottles, the first of a mottled russet stone, with relief carved tiger and dragon decoration, the other of a squared form and of honey agate. Height of taller 2 5/16 inches. $700-900

495 Two Snuff Bottles, one of peking glass simulating goldstone, the other of hair quartz. Height of taller 2 1/8 inches. $400-600

496 Two Jadeite Snuff Bottles, each having apple green inclusions, one of compressed, rounded form, the other of a round, pebble form with a carved fruiting branch curled around the body. Height of taller 2 1/8 inches. $1,500-2,000 497 Two Carved Snuff Bottles, one of rock crystal with a conforming stopper handle, the other of agate depicting a Daoist immortal holding a flywhisk. Height overall of taller 2 5/8 inches. $800-1,200

498 A Peking Glass Simulating Shadow Agate Snuff Bottle, of compressed, flask form and depicting goldfish. Height 2 1/4 inches. $200-400 499 Two Jade Snuff Bottles, the first of white stone having incised decoration of a tiger and lingzhi, with a jadeite stopper cover, the second of near-white stone and of compressed, rounded form and uncarved. Height of taller 2 3/4 inches. $1,200-2,600

500 Two Agate Snuff Bottles, the first depicting sages seated beneath a pine, with a rose quartz lid, the second a shadow agate example depicting a butterfly. Height of tallest 3 3/4 inches. $2,000-4,000

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