Chinese, Japanese & South East Asian Art, Day One

Two Chinese red overlay snowstorm glass snuff bottlesQing dynasty, 19th centuryOne carved with a bird by a large flower on each side, 6.8cm high w...

Two Chinese red overlay snowstorm glass snuff bottlesQing dynasty, 1780-1850 and 1800-1880The first, finely carved with a dragon-creature and his ...

A Chinese imitation-realgar glass snuff bottleLate Qing dynastyStanding on a protruding, oval foot with flat base, 6.7cm high without stopper.清晚期 ...

Three Chinese overlay glass snuff bottlesLate Qing dynasty - 20th centuryComprising: a pink overlay milky-white glass snuff bottle finely carved w...

Three Chinese glass snuff bottlesLate Qing dynastyComprising: a white glass imitating jade double gourd bottle, associated hardstone stopper with ...

Three Chinese black overlay snuff bottlesQing dynasty, 19th centuryComprising: a black overlay pink glass bottle carved with the Eight Buddhist Em...

Three Chinese overlay snuff bottlesQing dynasty, 19th century and late Qing dynasty/Republic periodComprising: one blue overlay translucent glass ...

Three Chinese red overlay translucent glass 'horses' snuff bottlesQing dynasty, 19th centuryOne carved with horses under willows, with mock-emboss...

Three Chinese red overlay translucent and snowstorm glass snuff bottlesQing dynasty, 19th centuryComprising: a red overlay snowstorm glass bottle ...

Two Chinese green overlay translucent glass snuff bottlesLate Qing dynastyThe first, carved with horses in a willow grove, 7cm high without stoppe...

Two Chinese overlay glass snuff bottles of tapering cylindrical form20th centuryThe first, a translucent purple overlay milky white glass bottle, ...

Four Chinese overlay glass 'hundred antiques' and 'Buddhist Emblems' snuff bottlesQing dynasty, 19th century - 20th centuryComprising: one cinnaba...

Four Chinese overlay glass snuff bottlesLate Qing dynasty-20th centuryComprising: a blue overlay on milky white glass bottle decorated with lotus ...

Five Chinese overlay snuff bottles20th centuryComprising: a blue overlay on white glass melon-shaped snuff bottle, 5cm wide; a six-colour overlay ...

Five Chinese overlay snuff bottlesQing dynasty, 19th century - 20th centuryComprising: a dark green overlay on milky white glass bottle in the sha...

A Chinese agate 'lotus pond' snuff bottleMid Qing dynastyThe well-hollowed bottle finely incised with a continuous scene of ducklings in a lotus p...

Two Chinese carved agate snuff bottlesQing dynasty, 19th centuryThe first, from a greyish stone with mushroom inclusions charmingly carved as a pa...

A Chinese 'qilin' smoky quartz snuff bottle20th centuryThe bottle well hollowed, finely carved as a recumbent qilin looking back over his shoulder...

A Chinese 'monkeys' smoky quartz snuff bottleQing dynasty, 19th centuryFinely carved as a seated monkey holding a peach in her lap, her infant cla...

A Chinese 'melon' rock crystal snuff bottleLate Qing dynastyFinely formed as a melon, a leaf and tendril carved in shallow relief and wrapped arou...

A Chinese 'silhouette' agate pebble-form snuff bottleQing dynasty, 19th centuryThe small pebble well-hollowed from a white-greyish stone, one side...

A large Chinese carved agate snuff bottleLate Qing dynastyThe well-hollowed bottle carved from a semi-translucent stone of a warm caramel tone, th...

A large Chinese carved agate 'scholars' snuff bottleLate Qing dynastyThe well-hollowed bottle carved from a semi-translucent stone of a whitish-gr...

Two Chinese carved amber-colour agate snuff bottlesLate Qing dynastyThe first, of rectangular shape, carved to each side in shallow relief with a ...

Two Chinese hardstone snuff bottlesLate Qing dynasty/20th centuryBoth with lightly incised decoration of leaves, the first carved from a dark gree...

A Chinese banded agate 'floating' snuff bottleQing dynasty, 19th centuryStanding on a slightly concave, oval foot, rising to gently rounded should...

A Chinese banded agate slender oviform snuff bottleQing dynasty, 18th/19th centuryStanding on a flat oval foot, rising to gently rounded sides and...

Two Chinese smoky quartz snuff bottlesQing dynasty, 19th centuryBoth well-hollowed from dark, translucent stones, standing on short, protruding ov...

Two Chinese rock crystal snuff bottles and one translucent glass imitating crystal snuff bottleLate Qing dynastyComprising: a plain rock crystal b...

Two agate and one smoky quartz snuff bottleQing dynasty, 1850-1911The first agate of pear shape, standing on a flat foot, the translucent stone wi...

Three Chinese agate snuff bottlesQing dynasty, 19th centuryComprising: a translucent caramel-coloured bottle with concentric streaky red, brown an...

Three Chinese agate snuff bottlesQing dynasty, 18th centuryEach well-hollowed, standing on a protruding, slightly concave oval foot, the shoulders...

A Chinese 'shagreen' snuff bottleQing dynasty, 19th centuryOf shaped rectangular section, associated stopper, 5.9cm high without stopper.清十九世紀 鮫皮鼻...

Two Chinese tortoiseshell snuff bottlesLate Qing dynasty-Republic periodComprising: a tapering hexagonal bottle with applied mock-embossed lion-an...

A Chinese carved hediao snuff bottle and two lacquered wood snuff bottlesQing dynasty, 18th century - 19th centuryThe first, carved from a peach s...

A Chinese fossiliferous limestone snuff bottle and stopperMid-Qing dynastyWell-hollowed, standing on a thin oval foot, with original stopper with ...

Two Chinese pink rhodonite snuff bottlesLate Qing dynastyBoth well-hollowed, the first standing on an oval, short, lipped foot, associated stopper...

A Chinese hardstone inlaid cinnabar lacquer snuff bottle and two coconut snuff bottles20th centuryThe first with a pink tourmaline, turquoise and ...

A Chinese cloisonné-enamel 'lotus' snuff bottle and stopperQing dynasty, possibly Imperial workshops, Qianlong/Jiaqing periodEnamelled throughout ...

A Chinese cloisonné-enamel 'landscape' shaped cylindrical bottleQing dynasty, 19th centuryDecorated with two landscape panels set against a turquo...

Two Chinese cloisonné-enamel snuff bottles and stoppersLate Qing dynastyComprising a cylindrical bottle with a dragon on yellow ground, stopper, 5...

A Chinese painted enamel cinnabar-red and turquoise 'dragons' snuff bottle20th centuryThe flattened circular shape painted on the turquoise ground...

Three Chinese metal snuff bottles and one Indian white metal snuff bottleLate Qing dynasty, 19th century - 20th centuryComprising: one bronze bott...

Three Chinese enamelled snuff bottles20th century, apocryphal Qianlong marksComprising: a painted enamel bottle in the Imperial style decorated wi...

Three Chinese Mongolian-style white metal snuff bottlesLate Qing dynasty - 20th centuryThe first consisting of a thumbprint agate core mounted wit...

Three Chinese agate-imitation glass snuff bottle and one amber-imitation glass snuff bottleLate Qing dynastyThe first three of opaque, toffee-colo...

A Chinese blue and white 'Ming-style lotus' snuff bottleQing dynasty, Qianlong mark and periodThe cylindrical body painted with a continuous lotus...

A Chinese blue and white on crackle-ground 'dragon' snuff bottleQing dynasty, Daoguang mark and periodThe cylindrical body finely painted with a s...

A Chinese enamelled 'badger and eagle' snuff bottleLate Qing dynasty, Lu shanzi daoren zhi markThe bottle finely enamelled with an eagle perched o...

One Chinese copper red and one blue and white 'dragon' snuff bottleQing dynasty, 19th century, the red with apocryphal Qianlong markThe first fine...

A Chinese famille rose and iron-red 'dragon' cylindrical snuff bottleQing dynasty, Guangxu mark and periodTypically enamelled with an iron-red dra...

Two Chinese blue and white and underglaze copper snuff bottles Qing dynasty, 19th centuryThe first painted with a handler leading three camels, 8....

Two Chinese underglaze blue and underglaze red 'warriors' snuff bottlesQing dynasty, 19th centuryThe first painted with victorious warriors approa...

Two Chinese underglaze red and blue cylindrical snuff bottleLate Qing dynastyThe first finely painted with a warrior and two attendants on a boat ...

A Chinese underglaze red and blue and white 'narrative scene' snuff bottleQing dynasty, 19th centuryPainted in cobalt blue and copper red with a s...

Two Chinese blue and white soft-paste snuff bottlesQing dynasty, 18th/19th centuryThe first decorated with a battle scene, 7.2cm high without stop...

A Chinese blue and white 'battle' soft-paste porcelain snuff bottleQing dynasty, 18th/19th centuryFinely painted under the crackled glaze with war...

A Chinese iron-red 'dragon' snuff bottleQing dynasty, 19th centuryEnamelled around the cylindrical body with a sinuous dragon chasing a flaming pe...

A fine Chinese copper-red 'dragon' cylindrical snuff bottleQing dynasty, Imperial workshops, 1810-1860With wide mouth with gently convex lip and s...

A Chinese Yixing zisha and duanni pear-shaped snuff bottleLate Qing dynasty, apocryphal Qianlong markThe pear-shaped body formed from red stonewar...