Could you tell me what this is? I would also like to know how old it is and where it came from. Dear B. M.: In photos sent, the piece is shown disassembled. There is a small button-shaped component, 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 ...

New York - Christie’s is pleased to announce the sales of Asian Art Week for Fall 2015, a series of nine sales, starting from 15 September to 18 September. The week will present over a thousand lots ...

The tenth and final installment of Snuff Bottles from the Mary and George Bloch Collection consists of 214 lots of snuff bottles in different media, reflecting the rich diversity and artistry of Qing ...

Chances are it’s been a while since you reached into your snuff bottle for a good, strong pinch of snuff. Indeed, you may have never seen one of these vessels, made to hold dried tobacco historically ...

HONG KONG (AFP) - Two antique Chinese snuff bottles fetched record prices of over a million dollars each when they sold at auction to a Chinese real estate tycoon in Hong Kong, the auction house said.

AT an auction the other day, in Paris, a small Louis XVI snuff-box, without jewels, but enriched with miniature landscapes by Van Blarenbergh, fetched the large sum of ten thousand dollars. No ...

Snuff bottles have been an element of Shona material culture since the Portuguese introduced tobacco in the late-16th or early-17th century. The casual practice of taking snuff continues today, but it ...

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