And they’re of… Sotheby’s Asian Week series in New York started Tuesday with The Joe Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles. The sale totaled $4.93 million, comfortably within the pre-sale estimate, but well below the $6.5 million high estimate which had first been put on the collection. This indicates that while buyers were there, they weren’t jumping up either.. About 83% sold by lot and 90% by value. The highlight of the collection was an imperial enamel on copper snuff bottle from the Palace Workshops with a Qianlong Mark (1736-1795) which doubled the low estimate to sell for $662,500. The second top lot, an enamel on yellow glass snuff bottle with a Qianlong mark sold for $314,500, well above its $100,000 - 150,000 estimate.