Antiques & Fine Art with Asian Art & Musical Instruments(#130) 17/05/2018 10:00 AM GMT CLOSED Auction Information Advanced Search ▼ Items per page 122448 Advanced Search Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Pictures: Prints, Etchings, Engravings & Maps Metalware Asian Art: Japanese Works of Art Furniture: Reproduction Jewellery: Costume Jewellery Books Scientific Instruments Carpets & Rugs Ceramics Plated Items Clocks: Carriage Clocks Pictures: Northern & Contemporary Oils Militaria Asian Art: Chinese Works of Art Furniture: Arts and Crafts & 20th Century Design Jewellery Barometers Sporting Lighting Decorative Arts Glass Watches: Pocket Watches Pictures: Northern & Contemporary Watercolours Musical Instruments & Mechanical Music Beswick Furniture: Oak & Vernacular Coins Clocks: Longcase Clocks Automobilia Pictures: Traditional Oils Bronze & Other Sculptures Ethnic & Tribal Art Watches: Wristwatches Pictures: Northern & Contemporary Prints Toys & Games: Trains Doulton Furniture: Traditional General Clocks: Wall Clocks Collectors' Items Pictures: Traditional Watercolours Textiles Asian Art: Oriental & Eastern Works of Art Militaria: Section 1 Firearms Ephemera Toys & Games: Toys Ceramic Figures Garden and Architectural Silver Clocks: Mantel clocks Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Auctioneer All auctioneersLiverpooltest Lot Number Results: Viewing items 865-912 of 2312. View Lot 839 A near pair of late 19th/early 20th century lac burgate snuff bottles of squat ovoid forms decorated with floral panels to each side, height 5cm, and a further similar octagonal example with fylfot ornamental band to the neck, yellow metal inlaid two character mark to base (3). Purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1988. Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£260StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe octagonal bottle has got a little loss to one of the yellow metal foil borders. View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£260StatusCLOSED Lot 840 An early 20th century Chinese Famille Verte porcelain double cylindrical snuff bottle painted in enamels with a figure and table with vase to each side, with green and orange hardstone stoppers, with four character seal mark to base, height 5.5cm. Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£130StatusCLOSED Condition ReportBoth spoons replaced, two small foot rim chips, surface wear and imperfections to glaze. View details Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£130StatusCLOSED Lot 841 A late 19th century Chinese blue and white cloisonnй enamel decorated snuff bottle of flat circular form depicting flower heads on scroll motifs ground, with matching stopper, height 7cm, and a further black fine cloisonnй enamel decorated example of flat ovoid form, height 6cm (2). Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£270StatusCLOSED Condition Reportblue and white example with miniscule chip to rim, natural imperfections to both, some surface scratches. View details Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£270StatusCLOSED Lot 842 A 19th century Chinese cloisonnй enamel decorated snuff bottle with globular body and slender neck, height 6cm, and two further possibly Japanese examples depicting cranes (3). Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£160StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£160StatusCLOSED Lot 843 A pair of 19th century Chinese porcelain cylindrical snuff bottles painted in underglaze blue and red with confronting warriors at the brick city wall with figures and with ornamental band to the shoulders, with six character marks to base, height 8cm, one with green hardstone stopper, and a further larger example with similar scene of warriors at the city gate, height 9.5cm including green hardstone stopper (3). The pair was purchased as Sotheby's Chester in 1988. Estimate£120 - £180Winning Bid£760StatusCLOSED Condition ReportSome fritting to foot rim of one. View details Estimate£120 - £180Winning Bid£760StatusCLOSED Lot 844 A 19th century Chinese porcelain cylindrical snuff bottle painted in underglaze blue with men and horse beside tree, with fragments of wax seal to the side and with six character mark to base, height 7.5cm. Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£150StatusCLOSED Condition ReportPitting and surface marks but overall ok. View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£150StatusCLOSED Lot 845 A Chinese double overlay white and black glass snuff bottle of flat ovoid form decorated with a deer to one side and two herons to the other amongst pine trees, height 6cm, and a further black and snowstorm white Peking glass example decorated with blossoming branches, with green hardstone stopper, height 7.8cm (2). The first item was purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1989. Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£150StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£150StatusCLOSED Lot 846 Two Chinese rose quartz snuff bottles of flat ovoid forms, one carved with phoenix to each side, height 7.5cm, the other with green jade stopper (2). Purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1981 and 1986. Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED Lot 847 Two Chinese blue carved overlay glass snuff bottles of flat globular forms, one depicting a squirrel amongst blossoming branches, height 7cm including pale green hardstone stopper, the other decorated with a cat and a parrot, with ring mask handles and agate stopper (2). The first item was purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1988. Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£150StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£150StatusCLOSED Lot 848 A Chinese red carved overlay glass snuff bottle of flat globular form, overall decorated with confronting dragons amongst clouds, and another red and green example decorated with heron and a rabbit with leaves, both with green hardstone stoppers (2). Both purchased at Sotheby's Chester 1981 and 1986. Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£160StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£160StatusCLOSED Lot 849 Two Chinese carved amethyst snuff bottles, one of flat ovoid form decorated in relief with blossoming branches and birds (af), height 7cm including floral stopper, the other of shaped square tapering form, decorated with phoenix and flower head (stopper missing) (2). Purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1986. Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe bottle with stopper has areas of re-gluing to the branches and minor chips/nibbles, and a loss to the tip of the leaf opposite the bird. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED Lot 850 A Chinese white, grey, black and moss agate snuff bottle of flat globular form carved with boy playing with ball to one side, height 6cm including stopper. Purchased at Ormerod Gallery, Portobello Road in 1990. Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSED Lot 851 A Chinese carved green hardstone snuff bottle modelled as a tortoise, length 6cm (lacking stopper), and a further yellow Peking glass example with rose quartz stopper (2). Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£90StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£90StatusCLOSED Lot 852 A Chinese carved orange and olive agate snuff bottle modelled as a pear and carved in Soochow style with branches and auspicious bat, height 6cm. Purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1988. Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£130StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe spoon needs reattaching to the stopper. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£130StatusCLOSED Lot 853 A Chinese green and white carved overlay glass snuff bottle modelled as a cabbage, height 6cm including stopper, with wooden stand. Purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1988. Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Lot 854 A Chinese porcelain coral effect glazed snuff bottle of flat ovoid form, decorated with a dragon to one side and phoenix to the other amongst clouds, height 8cm (af). Purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1986. Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£290StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThere are a few areas of restoration and numerous areas of tiny losses to most raised parts, also some rubbing. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£290StatusCLOSED Lot 855 A Chinese cinnabar snuff bottle of flat ovoid form finely decorated with figural and architectural landscape to each side on scroll and floral motif ground within two foliate borders and stylised chrysanthemum stopper, height 7cm, and a further similarly decorated example of rectangular tapering form, both with four character marks to bases (2). Purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1988. Estimate£150 - £200StatusUnsold View details Estimate£150 - £200StatusUnsold Lot 856 A Chinese cinnabar snuff bottle of flat circular form decorated with figural garden scenes to each side, with stylised chrysanthemum stopper, height 6.5cm, and a further similar floral decorated example, both with four character marks to base (2). Estimate£150 - £200StatusUnsold View details Estimate£150 - £200StatusUnsold Lot 857 A Chinese Peking green and white carved overlay glass snuff bottle of flat ovoid form decorated with floral motif to each side, height 8cm including jade stopper. Purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1988. Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Lot 858 A Chinese Sancai glazed porcelain snuff bottle of flat ovoid form overall decorated with eight Buddhist auspicious symbols on floral and scroll ground, with base metal filigree decorated stopper, height 8cm, and a further turquoise glazed example decorated with birds amongst blossoming branches with ring mask handles (stopper af) (2). The first item was purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1987. Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£120StatusCLOSED Condition ReportTwo firing flaws to body of larger snuff bottle. Smaller bottle; spoon is stuck in body and detached from lid, heavy surface wear in parts leaving discolouration, hairline crack to cover and neck. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£120StatusCLOSED Lot 859 A Chinese carved carnelian snuff bottle of oval tapering form decorated in relief with birds perched on rose branches, height 10cm. Purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1989. Estimate£80 - £120StatusUnsold Condition ReportThere are numerous areas of tiny nibbles to edges of flowers and there are two major areas of losses to the petals of the flowers on the stopper, numerous natural inclusions. View details Estimate£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot 860 A 19th century Chinese turned ivory snuff bottle modelled as a double gourd vase, ink work decorated with architectural and mountainous landscape, height 8cm including stopper, and a further example decorated in relief with band of fish amongst seaweed, height 5cm, lacking stopper (2). The first item was purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1989. Estimate£150 - £250Winning Bid£130StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£150 - £250Winning Bid£130StatusCLOSED Lot 861 A Chinese blue glazed porcelain snuff bottle of flat ovoid form overall moulded with eight Buddhist auspicious symbols amongst foliate scrolls and floral motifs on incised meander ground, with orange stone stopper and ivory spoon, height 7cm. Purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1987. Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£85StatusCLOSED Condition ReportAreas of rubbing to the glaze and a few areas of flaking, also two tiny chips/firing imperfections to some of the raised parts. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£85StatusCLOSED Lot 862 A Chinese carved pale green hardstone snuff bottle modelled as a 'Buddha's hand' fruit, height 6.5cm (lacking stopper), and a further example modelled as a toad, with stopper (2). Purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1981 and 1988. Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£420StatusCLOSED Condition ReportNo paperwork, lighter coloured length approx 6.3cm and 75.3g, darker length approx 5.3cm and 41.9g. Lighter coloured lacking spoon and stopper, frog example with two small holes to base, both with surface wear including small nibbles and scratches. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£420StatusCLOSED Lot 863 A 19th century Chinese porcelain snuff bottle of squat globular form, finely painted in enamels with grasshopper to one side and with grasshopper on basket to the other, with green jade stopper, bearing four zhuanshu script character mark to base and with fragments of wax seal to one side, height 6.5cm, and a further example painted with numerous figures surrounding a mythical beast, height 6.5cm, attached to a fitted wooden stand (2). Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£540StatusCLOSED Condition ReportInsect decorated bottle; very dirty with surface staining and scratches. Figural bottle; light surface wear. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£540StatusCLOSED Lot 864 A 19th century Chinese Famille Noire porcelain cylindrical snuff bottle decorated with various figural scenes and with band of five auspicious bats to the shoulders, with underglaze blue longevity circular symbol to the base, height 7cm, including green jade stopper. Purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1986. Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£210StatusCLOSED Condition ReportStopper incorrect otherwise ok. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£210StatusCLOSED Lot 865 A porcelain pвte-sur-pвte decorated snuff bottle of flat ovoid form depicting cranes in flight amongst clouds on a black ground, height 6cm including the blue glazed stopper. Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Lot 866 A late 19th/early 20th century Chinese blue glazed porcelain snuff bottle of flat ovoid form, with moulded floral motifs to one side and with vase to the other, with ring mask handles, with four character mark to the base, height 6.5cm. Purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1986. Estimate£40 - £60StatusUnsold Condition ReportThere is a chip to the rim of the neck and some areas of manufacturing imperfections, also crazing to the glaze and some surface wear. View details Estimate£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot 867 A Chinese carved malachite snuff bottle modelled as a double gourd vase with fruit with leaves, height 6.5cm, and a further plain malachite example (lacking stopper) (2). Purchased at Haughton Towers Antique Fair in 1991 and Sotheby's Chester in 1886. Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£95StatusCLOSED Condition ReportNatural imperfections to bodies, light surface scratches. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£95StatusCLOSED Lot 868 A Chinese inside painted glass snuff bottle of square tapering form depicting figural garden scene in mountainous landscape and crane to one side, with verses of character marks, with green hardstone stopper, height 10cm. Purchased at Christie's London in 1981. Estimate£80 - £120StatusUnsold Condition ReportCracked from neck to shoulder, also hairline crack from neck to shoulder, light surface wear. View details Estimate£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot 869 Two Chinese inside painted glass snuff bottles of flat ovoid form, one depicting blossoming branches and a flower pot, by Yen Yutian, signed and dated 1898, height 7cm, and a further similar example decorated with mountainous lake landscape with boats to one side and with floral motifs to the other with verses of script, both with stoppers (2). The first item purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1989. Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£520StatusCLOSED Condition ReportSpoon lacking to both, light surface wear. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£520StatusCLOSED Lot 870 A Chinese agate snuff bottle of flat oval form, carved with peach tree and a monkey on dark brown inclusion/skin to one side, with apple green jade stopper and metal spatula, height 9cm. Purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1988. Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£880StatusCLOSED Condition ReportGood condition. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£880StatusCLOSED Lot 871 A 19th century Chinese porcelain snuff bottle of flat oval form, finely painted in underglaze blue with dignitary and attendants at a city wall with figures upon to one side and with a figure in mountainous landscape to the other, bearing four Zhuanshu script character mark to base, height 7.5cm including green hardstone stopper. Purchased at Moongate Singapore in 1981. Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£190StatusCLOSED Condition ReportFiring imperfection below neck, light surface pitting otherwise ok. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£190StatusCLOSED Lot 872 A Chinese crackle glaze porcelain snuff bottle of globular form with cylindrical neck, painted with chrysanthemum heads throughout and with floral band to the neck, bearing four character mark to base, height 6.5cm, a further flat ovoid carved hardstone example with ring mask handles, and another white opaque glass example incised and gilt decorated with auspicious character mark to both sides, with enamelled stopper and silver spatula (3). The first two items purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1 Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSED Condition ReportGlobular; crazing and fine hairline cracks to base. Hardstone example; slight surface wear. Third; chips to rim, glue repair to stopper. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSED Lot 873 A 19th century Chinese ivory snuff bottle of flat ovoid form, engraved and painted with a bird perched on blossoming branch to one side, height 6cm including stopper. Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED Condition ReportTiny hairline cracks to neck and light surface wear. View details Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED Lot 874 A late 19th/early 20th century Chinese horn snuff bottle of octagonal form set with ivory roundel engraved and inked with a figure of a dancer and with seal mark to one side and gilt decorated with censer flanked by four character mark to the other, height 5.5cm including purple hardstone stopper and a further ivory example carved with a seated man beside a tree (2). The second item purchased at Sotheby's Pulborough in 1983. Estimate£150 - £250StatusUnsold Condition ReportIvory example with cracks to body, horn example with minor surface wear. View details Estimate£150 - £250StatusUnsold Lot 875 A Chinese agate snuff bottle of flat globular form, carved in dark skin with a man fighting with a tiger to one side and with a bird to the other, height 5.5cm including green hardstone stopper, and a dark green hardstone pear shaped scent bottle decorated with floral motifs (2). Estimate£150 - £250StatusUnsold View details Estimate£150 - £250StatusUnsold Lot 876 A Chinese carved pale grey agate and violet snuff bottle of flat tapering form, decorated with floral motifs to both sides, height 6cm. Purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1981. Estimate£50 - £80StatusUnsold View details Estimate£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot 877 A Chinese figured polished wood snuff bottle of flat ovoid form, carved with two ring and mythical beast mask handles, height 6cm including an agate cabochons stopper. Purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1986. Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£130StatusCLOSED Condition ReportFlaw to the neck which appears to be a hairline crack running to shoulder also with a small crack, stopper detached. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£130StatusCLOSED Lot 878 A Chinese pale grey hardstone snuff bottle of ovoid form, carved in Soochow style in brown skin with a figure and a crane, height 6.5cm, and a further agate example carved with stylised foliate scroll motifs, height 8cm (2). The first item purchased at Sotheby's Chester in 1989. Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED Condition ReportChip to neck of coral covered example, both with light surface wear. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED Lot 879 A Chinese dark orange agate snuff bottle of flat ovoid form carved with monkey masks to the shoulders, height 8cm including green hardstone stopper, and a further smoky grey and green example with orange inclusions and bloodstone stopper (2). Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED Lot 880 Three various Chinese hardstone circular snuff dishes, diameter of the largest 4.5cm (3). Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED Lot 881 A late 19th/early 20th century Chinese Canton Export carved ivory snuff bottle of flat ovoid form, decorated with two opposing panels depicting figural garden scenes, with chrysanthemum stopper, height 6cm, and a further bone example with ink work architectural landscape (af), both with bronze mounted bases bearing four character marks (2). Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSED Lot 882 A Chinese cinnabar snuff bottle of flat globular form, decorated with figural and architectural landscape to each side, with brass mounts to base and top, height 7cm (missing stopper). Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£180StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£180StatusCLOSED Lot 883 Two similar Chinese red glass snuff bottles of flat globular forms, the larger 7.5cm (af), both lacking stoppers (2). Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£40StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£40StatusCLOSED Lot 884 A Chinese red carved overlay glass snuff bottle of flat globular form, overall decorated with blossoming branches, height 7cm (af), and a further clear and red glass example with twin mask handles and geometrical motifs (both lacking stoppers) (2). Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£60StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£60StatusCLOSED Lot 885 A Chinese red glass snuff bottle of flat globular form, incised decorated with a stylised seal mark within a border of whirls to both sides, height 6cm, and a further octagonal floral decorated example (both lacking stoppers) (af) (2). Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED Lot 886 A Chinese soapstone snuff bottle of flat ovoid form, decorated with stylised character marks to one side, height 5.5cm, a similarly shaped yellow hardstone example with green hardstone stopper and a cylindrical inside painted glass example, also a miniature porcelain mallet vase (all af) (4). Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£40StatusCLOSED Condition ReportVase has 10 x 4mm chip, badly damaged and crudely glued area to hardstone example, cylindrical example with chips to rim. View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£40StatusCLOSED Items per page 122448 Previous|1...171819202122...49|Next12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849 Previous 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849 Next Previous 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849 Next