EMBELLISHMENT, TSUDA FAMILY, KYOTO, JAPAN, 1930-1965; BOTTLE, CHINA, 1750-1850

Details

AN EMBELLISHED WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
EMBELLISHMENT, TSUDA FAMILY, KYOTO, JAPAN, 1930-1965; BOTTLE, CHINA, 1750-1850
The white jade bottle is embellished with hardstones, soapstone and lacquer, with a scene of two ladies in a boat picking lotus blossoms in a pond on one side, and on the reverse with a bird in flight above water plants.
2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper

Provenance

Asiantiques, Winter Park, Florida, 1995.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2007.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

A number of theories surrounding the Tsuda family are discussed at length in the entries to related bottles in Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 7, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2009, pp. 563-74, nos. 1703-6.

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