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 ...

Rivers and Mountains Far from the World: Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Rachelle R. Holden Collection, borrows its evocative title from the scholarly catalogue published by the late ...

"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 ...

WHAT: When Christie’s New York sold Part II of a private collection of Chinese snuff bottles last month, the 154 lots totaled just under $1 million. One, a sandwiched pink glass bottle in the form of ...

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 ...

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 ...