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192. A Chinese porcelain yellow-ground snuff bottle, painted with butterflies, peony and other plants, the base with a three character mark which reads shen de tang (hall for the cultivation of virtue), 7.4cm.


£600-800 Cf. The Snuff Bottle Collector, Number Six, April 1972, p.38, where this snuff bottle is illustrated.


193. A Chinese Beijing glass snuff bottle, 18th century, decorated in blue, pink, yellow, brown, green and black, with ducks, other birds, lotus and a vase, the stopper jadeite, 7.1cm.


194. A rare Chinese pudding stone snuff bottle, with a plain ovoid body, 6cm. £1,000-1,500


Provenance: formerly in the collection of George Tajasque, Chef de cabinet of General Pasquier, Governor General of French Indo-China 1930-35.


195. Two Chinese Beijing glass snuff bottles, 18th/19th century, one decorated in blue with flowers, the other with a cat, birds, butterflies and flowers in polychrome, the taller bottle with a rim chip, 8.1cm. (2)


£300-500


196. A Chinese lapis lazuli plaque, 19th century, carved with two small boys, one holding an enormous lotus leaf, 4.6cm.


£300-500


£100-200


197. A Chinese jade snuff bottle, 18th century, carved in relief with Shoulao holding a staff beneath a pine tree in a landscape with rocks, lingzhi fungus and a crane, 8cm.


£800-1,000


198. Two Chinese snuff bottles, 19th/20th century, one in white jade carved in shallow relief with a horse, the other of a mottled green jadeite, 7.3cm. (2)


£250-350


199. A Chinese agate pendant, 18th/19th century, depicting a figure on horseback crossing a bridge amidst a rocky landscape, and another with small carvings of animals in jadeite, lapis, nephrite and coral, 5.8cm. (2)


£300-500


200. Two Chinese agate snuff bottles, one carved in high relief with a Buddhist lion and two birds, the other plain with feathery-brown markings, 7.5cm. (2)


£800-1,000


201. A Chinese rock crystal carving of Liu Hai, 18th/19th century, wearing flowing robes, with a string of cash and his three-legged toad, 6.1cm.


£200-300 Provenance: purchased from Sydney L. Moss Ltd., 30th December 1970 for £18.


202. A Chinese porcelain snuff bottle, 19th century, in the form of Liu Hai, standing and smiling holding a string of cash and his three-legged toad, a small chip to the tip of his nose, 9.8cm. £1,500-2,000


Cf. H. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles, 5th May 1969, p.61.


203. A Chinese amethyst and rock crystal carving, 19th century, depicting two fighting cats, 4.8cm.


£400-600


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