Title: Antique Chinese Yixing Enamel Snuff Bottle
Description: This is a beautiful antique snuff bottle! It appears to be a rust or cinnabar colored unglazed ceramic pottery such as Yixing, banko, or sumida. It has panels on each side with figural decorations in enamel. One panel shows a man and a bird, the other panel shows a man and a frog. On the sides are floral decorations and what could be a plum blossom flower. With a silver and sim jade sim coral top or lid , which we have seen commonly on Tibetan items.
This is one of 3 antique snuff bottles we have listed individually; please see those listings as well!
Signed: Not signed
Dimensions: 3 inches tall with lid, 2.5 inches tall without lid. 1.75 inches widest, 0.75 inches wide smallest point.
Weight: 64.4g
Condition: Some light surface wear, some darkness on corners and edges of pottery. Some tarnish on silver.
Provenance: This 3 piece Chinese estate lot is from a Manhattan retiree. The family said their relatives shopped at Upper East Side antiques venues including Sotheby’s. They also said some of the artist and subject names associated with those 3 snuff bottles selling individually are The Xian Feng Emperor’s wife, the famed Empress Dowager Cixi and Mo Shao Xuan of Queen Xiao Zhen. An inventory number associated with one or more of the 3 items was 3741R. Please note that we do not know which names are or may be associated with which bottle or bottles, if at all. Family names not made available.
Shipping: 8x6x4
Listed by: Amanda HFA NMHH

Some light surface wear, some darkness on corners and edges of pottery. Some tarnish on silver.

3 x 1.75 x 0.75 in

64.4 g