THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A RARE FUZHOU LACQUER BOTTLE

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A RARE FUZHOU LACQUER BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY

Of spade shape, painted with a continuous landscape with a solitary figure on one side and a small building on the other, predominantly painted in green, black and brown on a coffee ground, stopper

Lot Essay

For a similar example with figures in a landscape see Sotheby's, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Kaynes-Klitz Collection, Part I, Hong Kong, November 16, 1989, lot 218; and another example, with flowers on a gray ground, see Sotheby's, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Janos Szekeres, Part I, New York, October 17, 1986, lot 118

For a Fuzhou bottle by Lu Dong see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham, Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, p. 521, no. 307