Important South African and International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 5 March 2018
Decorative Arts
Lot Estimate
ZAR 20 000 - 25 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 31 831
About this Item
Four Chinese amber snuff bottles, early 20th century
each raised on a low oval footrim, the first carved with a small boy holding a peach and pointing at a monkey in a pine tree flanked by a pair of bats, the reverse carved with a crane in flight before a pine tree, waterfall, mountains and a pavilion, the shoulders with a pair of squirrels, stopper, 6,5cm high; the second carved with a pair of cranes before a pine tree, mountains and a pavilion, stopper, 6cm high; the third carved with four turtles contesting a peach and lingzhi against a basketweave ground, stopper, 6cm high; and the fourth example carved with a dragon, the reverse with a pair of peaches surrounded by five bats, stopper,6,2cm high
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