Lot 443
443
AN EMBELLISHED AMBER BOTTLE

Details
AN EMBELLISHED AMBER BOTTLE
THE BOTTLE POSSIBLY 18TH CENTURY, THE DECORATION LATER, POSSIBLY IN KYOTO, TSUDA FAMILY

Of rounded rectangular shape, decorated on one side witha lady riding a mule with an attendant nearby, in a flowering landscape with blossom below clouds, the reverse with a bird flying amidst bamboo and peony, stopper

Lot Essay

For an interesting discussion of embellished bottles see Bob C. Stevens, The Collectors's Book of Snuff Bottles, pp. 222-226. The author states that early writers on Snuff bottles do not mention embellished bottles and that those illustrated by Lilla Perry (Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Adventures & Studies of a Collector) have no attributions. He mentions visiting a certain Fukuya Tsuda and his father Sokan Tsuda (1872-1939) in Kyoto, who told him that they embellished old Chinese snuff bottles