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Antique Chinese snuff bottle. Transparent glass with an overlay of ruby-red glass, carved in relief, with motives of scholars under pine trees, playing chess and reading a scroll.
Rather large object: 3,5 x 4,4 x 1,5 inches (88 x 110 x 35 mm). Very fine condition.
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Qing Dynasty, Chinese Bronze-Buddha Akshobhya, fire-gilded.
3,2 x 2,2 x 4,4 inches (83 x 53 x 110 mm), 290 gram.
The gilding is partly worn out but intact on the larger part of the figure.
The content in the body oft he Buddha is still existent, the base-plate is uneven.
The Object comes from the important Dr. Walter Heihs collection.
Buddha Akshobhya, “the Unshakable”, is the Buddha touching the Earth with his right hand, while his left hand is resting in his lap to accept alms.
This position is known as the Bhumisparsha Mudra.
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Antique seal, grey-green stone, carved by the important seal carver Zhang Xiong 张熊, 1803 – 1886.
As actual seal 12 characters have been carved: 抱清静以独立，兮超万古而久长 bao qingjing yi duli, xi chao wangu er jiu chang (embrace the silence to become independent, transcend thorugh the ages and become age-old).
30 x 31 x 20 mm, good condition.
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Attractive pair of famille rose vases with floral décor (flowers and butterflies).
Blue square bottom mark Yong Zheng nian zhi 雍正年制, but produced later.
Height: 6,7 inches (17 cm). Good condition.
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Decorative, antique Chinese Bronze censer with handles at both sides and a lid in braided design.
Xuan De 宣德 – bottom mark but later origin, most probably 19. century.
Height: 65 mm, diameter: 52 mm. Natural, pleasing patina
The wooden base is part of the lot.
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Antique Chinese Zitan wood brush pot of slightly waisted cylindrical shape and set with a small interior plug, having 3 small flat feet to the bottom, a lip to the top and the traditional stopper to the inside bottom.
Extinct dark wood, ca. 1880. Good condition. Excellent object.
Diameter: 14 cm, Height: 15,2 cm.
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Attractive, brown – beige marbled Shou Shan Stone with landscape pictorial at the sides.
Poem in Xing-shu script at one side and details to seal carver at top, signed and dated.
6 characters as actual seal: Huang Shan Ying Shui zhi jian 黄山颖水之间 (between Huang-shan and Ying-river (in Zhengzhou county).
1,8 x 1,4 x 1,8 inches (45 x 38 x 42 mm), 159 gram. Fine condition.
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Antique Chinese brush container made of Paktong. Chiseld with scholar and boy motif and a delicately carved calligraphy.
The brush container is from the Qing Dynasty or Republic Period and has 2 bottom marks: Yin Lou 银楼 and Qing Mei 庆美.
At the reverse is a vertical dark line from fitting.
Diameter: 5 cm, height: 9,2 cm, natural patina, good condition.
Paktong is a Chinese alloy of zinc, copper and nickel, closely resembling silver.
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Attractive, old, Chinese snuff-bottle in shape of a calabash. Carving with calabash decor all around. Hardwood, good condition.
Diameter: 40 mm, Height: 61 mm.
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Very attractive Chinese seal, dark red-white beige Shou Shan Gao Shan Stone with a dragon and her baby as handle. Engraved are 4 characters: Chu Yu Tian Chu 出于天出 (deriving from heaven).
The seal as a whole has been delicately carved and the artist used the different shades of the stone in an exciting way: The white for the baby-dragon, the beige for the smoke out of the mouth.
The seal was engraved by the famous calligrapher and seal carver Zhang Yanchang (张燕昌 1738-1810).
Side engraving with details and seal carver’s name.
0,8 x 0,8 x 3,8 inches (21 x 22 x 98 mm), 99 gram, very fine condition.
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