Antique Chinese snuff bottle made of mottled yellow glass. Squarish body with rounded shoulders and thin carved oval shaped foot. Green Agate stopper with crazed surface.

Provanonce: The Caplin Collection

Republic Period (early 20th century)

Dimensions: 2" (total height)

Height: 9 cm (3.6 in)
Width: 3.5 cm (1.3 in)
Depth: 1.7 cm (0.5 in)

Quality Chinese inside painted glass snuff bottle; depicts two scenes of male figures in rural settings; jade stopper; signed

Chinese snuff bottle made from two color peking glass of dark red over amber. The red glass is carved with two water birds, one with a sprig in its beak, with scrolling lingzhi clouds and a lotus.

19th century

Dimensions: 1 3/4" x 1" x 2 3/4"

Rare Chinese two color rotating peking glass snuff bottle with a freely rotating mid section. The lid of the stopper has a red chimera finished over the original yellow peking glass. The foot flares out dramatically with a deep recess.

Early to Mid 19th century

Dimensions: 2" W x 3 1/4" H

This glass inside painting snuff bottle is 3 1/4" high, 2" wide and 7/8” thick. The bottle has an orange banded agate cap. The snuff bottle is dated 1997. The artist’s name is Yu Shi. Yu Shi's original name is Zhang Yu-Xiao. He was born in 1979 in Hebei province. He enjoys painting Buddha, Guan-Yin, Bodhidharma and other Buddhist figures. One side of the snuff bottle depicts two Japanese Geisha chatting under a willow tree; the other side is a Geisha sitting on a bench combing her hair...

Antique Chinese glass snuff bottle. Flattened round body made of amber color glass. Provenance: Collection of Howard Kaplan.

Early to Mid 19th Century

Dimensions: Bottle 2 1/8" high (with lid 2 3/8" high)

Antique Chinese carved glass snuff bottle. Made of dark red translucent glass and carved with a highly raised woven basket texture. Provenance: Collection of Howard Kaplan.

19th Century

Dimensions: Bottle: 2 5/8" high (3 1/8" high including lid)

Richly enameled with vibrant colors this snuff bottle features a bee headed towards a group of flowers. The cap is a red stone and the bottle is hand painted and signed on the bottom. A nice piece for the beginning collector which will only increase in value over time. Measures 3.75 inches high.

A Fine Chinese Carved Blue Overlay Glass Snuff Bottle, 1800~1850. The bottle of opaque white glass with snow-like inclusions, cased in blue glass. The blue glass is carved away to leave the Eight Horses of Mu Wang in a continuous landscape. The carving is very fine indeed. The stopper is hardstone with an ivory collar and spoon.

A bottle of the same design from perhaps the same workshop was sold at Christie’s “The Art of China: Online Winter Sale” Dec. 2017. Lot 36...

Height: 7.5 cm (3 in)
Width: 4.7 cm (1.8 in)
Depth: 2 cm (0.8 in)

Quality Chinese inside painted snuff bottle; mountain scene and figural decoration; marks present; good condition

Height: 8.5 cm (3.3 in)
Width: 4.7 cm (1.8 in)
Depth: 2.3 cm (0.9 in)

Chinese inside painted snuff bottle; depicts figures in rural settings; marks; good condition

This is a fine, flattened, vase shape, snowflake Glass snuff bottle, overlaid with Ruby-Red colored glass, carved in the form of an oval plate placed on both sides of the bottle, with side bars. It has an elongated neck with wide mouth, and a flat foot that has been carved with the Chinese Longevity symbol: Shou. It comes with an amber colored agate stopper...

This is an early 19th C., excellently carved, Pear shaped, with a flared neck, and a raised oval footing, decorated with a black overlay of a ferocious dragon on one side, and an elegant Phoenix on the other. It comes with a red stone stopper. The bottle, which is about 200 years old, is in outstanding preserved condition...

Chinese monochrome peking glass snuff bottle, made of an intense bright orange glass, with hard stone stopper. The bottle shows imagery of dragons carved in relief over ocean wave ground. Its base is signed with 4 character mark.

Republic Period

Dimensions: 2.25" x 1.25" x 3.5"

Chinese peking glass snuff bottle, of pink/maroon colored peking glass. The bottle is carved with a duck floating in a pond, surrounded by lily pads and rock formations. Carved with 2 chops and a signature on its base. With hardstone and mixed metal stopper.

Dimensions: 2 7/8" H x 1" W

A dated Chinese glass snuff bottle, overlaid with a decoration of flowers and insects.This documentary bottle bears the Bing Shen year corresponding to 1836 and its fine and detailed lapidary work makes it a highly desirable object. size: 2 1/4 inches high (6 cm). Age; 1836. condition : very good, a small section of the raised coloured ring at the base is missing. The blue glass cover is lacking its spoon.

Antique Chinese snuff bottle carved of goldstone, with stopper made of jadeite, accented with apple green areas. Wide, thin body with short foot. 19th Century Size: 2.5" height, 1.75" width, .5" depth

DESCRIPTION: A finely painted Chinese glass snuff bottle in flattened rectangular form, each side featuring a lohan (a Buddhist disciple) in landscape settings, one with a crouching dragon and the other with a playful foo lion. Above each lohan is a poem in fine calligraphy with red seal marks. Aventurine stopper, in excellent condition, early 20th C. DIMENSIONS: 3 ¼” high (8.3 cm).