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.

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 ...

Snuff, or powdered tobacco, became fashionable in Europe in the early 16th century. The habit of inhaling or “snuffing” tobacco through the nostrils was introduced from the Americas by Ramón Pané [PDF ...

28% on the first $50,000 of the hammer price; 27% of the hammer price of amounts in excess of $50,000 up to and including $1,000,000; 21% of the hammer price of amounts in excess of $1,000,000 up to ...

Lark Mason appraises Chinese snuff bottles and a porcelain vase in Orlando. In ROADSHOW's 2007 visit to Orlando, Florida, Lark Mason appraises Chinese snuff bottles and a porcelain vase.

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 ...

International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Annual Convention (23rd : 1991 : Boston, Mass.) https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source ...

Table of contents and captions also in Chinese. Catalog of an exhibition at Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Dec. 8, 1994-Feb. 5, 1995 and Phoenix Art Museum, Feb. 15-Apr. 15, 1995.

On Wednesday, October 15 at 2 p.m., the AGO welcomes Robert Hall and Stuart Sargent for a discussion about the more than 200 Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Thomson Collection of European Art. Artist ...