Masatoshi Fukumaru is a third-generation antiques dealer with a gallery in Kyoto, Japan, and high-end clientele in the United States. A regular contributor for Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses, ...

Christie's will offer a collection of 37 fine and rare snuff bottles from a private American collection for auction this Oct 7 in its Hong Kong's office. Its highlights include two enameled glass ...

The prices of antique Chinese snuff bottles have been on the rise in recent years, and it is likely only a matter of time before they really take off. In the last decade, China’s newly minted ...

Three Chinese porcelain snuff bottles that are being auctioned by Bonhams in Hong Kong on May 28. Each snuff bottle is expected to be sold for between HK$60,000 ($7,732) and HK$120,000.[Agencies] ...

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The Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department at Brandeis houses 47 Chinese snuff bottles from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Brandeis acquired this collection ...

"The snuff is put into glass bottles [of various colours]... The white [ones] as clear as crystal, the red like fire. What lovely things they are!" raved Wang Shizhen, a high-ranking minister of the ...

This antique snuff bottle features a very interesting design and a more interesting defect. Made sometime between 1810 and 1860, the enamel bottle is carved in the shape of a little Chinese boy in a ...

For die-hard antique buffs, one of the great attractions of old things is the degree of craftsmanship they exhibit. You can rave all you want to about the accuracy of quartz watches, but the delicate ...