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Lot 7186
Four porcelain snuff bottles 1780-1850
23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
San FranciscoSold for US$2,250 inc. premium
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Four porcelain snuff bottles
1780-1850
Including a well-potted baluster form bottle painted in underglaze blue depicting a hermit fishing at the bank of an immense lake surrounding secluded houses nestled in the shade of lush trees, with mountains in the distant skyline; three copper-red and underglaze blue decorated bottles, two of simple cylindrical form, one painted with an amusing moment of a fisherman trying to catch his hat taken by a crane, the other depicting theatrical scenes of figures in a landscape setting, the third an ovoid bottle decorated with an episodic scene of figures battling at an elaborate manor compound.
2 1/2 to 3in (6.4 to 7.6cm) high
Including a well-potted baluster form bottle painted in underglaze blue depicting a hermit fishing at the bank of an immense lake surrounding secluded houses nestled in the shade of lush trees, with mountains in the distant skyline; three copper-red and underglaze blue decorated bottles, two of simple cylindrical form, one painted with an amusing moment of a fisherman trying to catch his hat taken by a crane, the other depicting theatrical scenes of figures in a landscape setting, the third an ovoid bottle decorated with an episodic scene of figures battling at an elaborate manor compound.
2 1/2 to 3in (6.4 to 7.6cm) high
Footnotes
Provenance:
the Bentley Collection, U.K.
Chinese Arts and Crafts, kowloon, 1978
Published:
The Bentley Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Asian Art Studio, Inc., 2008, pp. 97-98