A JAPANESE LACQUERED-METAL AND EMBELLISHED BOTTLE

SNUFF BOTTLES

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A JAPANESE LACQUERED-METAL AND EMBELLISHED BOTTLE
QIANLONG MARK, 19TH CENTURY, THE EMBELLISHMENT POSSIBLY BY THE TSUDA FAMILY, KYOTO

Of large spade shape, embellished and painted with a continuous garden scene, one side with a lady at her toilette before a mirror, an assistant beside her, the other side with three children with a fishing rod at a mischievious game at a large fish bowl, the embellishment carved from various hard and softstones including coral, malachite and soapstones and also some mother-of-pearl and silver, all on a parcel-gilt brown ground, minor nicks and wear
4¼in. (10.8cm.) high, including stopper

Lot Essay

For other examples of similar type see John G. Ford, Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Edward Choate O'Dell Collection, Baltimore, 1982, pl. 79 and Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, pl. 814 and 816. For further discussion of this ware see Stevens, ibid., pp. 222-226