A JAPANESE LACQUERED-METAL AND EMBELLISHED BOTTLE, QIANLONG MARK, POSSIBLY TSUDA FAMILY, KYOTO, of wide spade shape, embellished with various materials and painted with a gentleman scholar seated at a table playing a qin, a woman, possibly dancing, stands before him, nearby is a large screen below a willow, the other side with a gentleman taking wine seated at a table, kang, with attendants near pine, the narrow sides applied with pearls, coral and jadeite, the ground painted brown, perhaps imitating amber or tortoise-shell, cracks and repair, stopper; together with a similar bottle of flattened tulip shaped painted with two ladies watching a crane from behind a screen under pine, the reverse with a lady seated in a pavilion near plantain, a young boy with a vessed approaching a bird, the sloping shoulders applied with pearls, some losses and minor repairs, stopper (2)

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A JAPANESE LACQUERED-METAL AND EMBELLISHED BOTTLE, QIANLONG MARK, POSSIBLY TSUDA FAMILY, KYOTO, of wide spade shape, embellished with various materials and painted with a gentleman scholar seated at a table playing a qin, a woman, possibly dancing, stands before him, nearby is a large screen below a willow, the other side with a gentleman taking wine seated at a table, kang, with attendants near pine, the narrow sides applied with pearls, coral and jadeite, the ground painted brown, perhaps imitating amber or tortoise-shell, cracks and repair, stopper; together with a similar bottle of flattened tulip shaped painted with two ladies watching a crane from behind a screen under pine, the reverse with a lady seated in a pavilion near plantain, a young boy with a vessed approaching a bird, the sloping shoulders applied with pearls, some losses and minor repairs, stopper (2)

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For other examples see Sotheby's, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, June 7, 1990, lot 382, and Sotheby's, Fine and Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Bob C. Stevens, Part I, Honolulu, November 7, 1981, lot 201

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