A Group of Five Assorted Chinese Snuff Bottles and Two Saucers

Comprising a blue and white porcelain saucer decorated with five boys entertainers, the underside with "Wan Yu"(handling jade), a blue and white four-lobed floral form snuff saucer, and five blue and white porcelain bottles including one painted with a group of martial artists in blue and red, inscribed "Li Jia Lao Dian"(Li family old shop), a snuff bottle/jarlet painted with eight horses and Qianlong mark to the underside; a blue and red floral scroll decorated bottle, a miniature double gourd bottle, and a miniature lion-decorated bottle.

Height including stopper(the largest) 3 3/4 in., 9.6 cm.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance:

Property from the estate of Elizabeth C. Smith, Florida.

The "eight horse" snuff bottle was acquired from Te Feng Company, Hong Kong.

Two cylindrical bottles #18 and #19 appraised by Eugene Y. C. Sung on July 2nd, 1985.

The five-boy snuff dish was acquired from Dennis G. Crow Ltd. on October 18th, 1994. Provenance: Eric Young (according to receipt).

The four-lobed snuff dish was acquired from Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc. East Dennis, Massachusetts, August 22, 1996, No. 181.

Two bottles missing spoons, a small gem stone detached from the stopper, and overall surface soiling, and abrasions.

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Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.

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A Group of Five Assorted Chinese Snuff Bottles and Two Saucers

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