EMBELLISHMENT, TSUDA FAMILY, KYOTO, JAPAN, 1900-1935; BOTTLE, CHINA, 1770-1880

Details

AN EMBELLISHED BANDED-AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
EMBELLISHMENT, TSUDA FAMILY, KYOTO, JAPAN, 1900-1935; BOTTLE, CHINA, 1770-1880
The bottle is carved from attractive honey-brown stone with horizontal bands of cream, gold and russet color, and is embellished with applied carved hardstones, lacquer and gilt with a boy peering out from behind a floor screen on one side, and on the reverse with a lady standing at a table set with tea and peaches.
2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high, jadeite stopper

Provenance

Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 2000.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2918.

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. For other examples of this embellished group, from the Collection of The Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, see JICSBS, Autumn 1999, Baltimore, front cover. Two other finely embellished examples from the J & J Collection were sold at Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 40, and 22 March 2007, lot 15.

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