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, ...

A collection of rare Chinese snuff bottles, which belonged to a West Midlands author, is expected to fetch more than £25,000 at auction. The collection, which dates back almost 80 years, was bought by ...

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 ...

A collection of rare Chinese snuff bottles, which belonged to a West Midlands author, have only sold for about a fifth of their expected price. The collection, which dates back almost 80 years, was ...

KRYSTLE MARCELLUS / [email protected] Kevin Au shows the small spoon that connects to the lid of an antique snuff bottle. KRYSTLE MARCELLUS / [email protected] One of Kevin ...

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 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 ...