THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1995

細節

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1995
SALE #8220
AT 4:30 P.M. APPROXIMATELY
(LOTS 304-442)

SNUFF BOTTLES

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

A RARE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT 'QUEEN VICTORIA' FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN BOTTLE
DAOGAUNG FOUR-CHARACTER IRON-RED SEAL IN A LINE ON THE FOOT AND OF THE PERIOD

Of rounded shape, painted on one side with a European ship with sailors shooting firearms and on the other side with an audience scene with European dignitaries kneeling and standing before Queen Victoria 2¼in. (5.8cm.) high, stopper

拍品專文

For a very similar bottle, with slightly different disposition of the figures, see Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1987, p. 171, no. 231, previously sold Sotheby's, New York, November 22, 1988, lot 53 and formerly in the Gerd Lester Collection

For further discussion of this subject matter see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, vol. I, New York, 1993, pp. 374-376, no. 218