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TWO LACQUER SNUFF BOTTLES
1800-1940
The first, Japanese, 1860-1940, is a mother-of-pearl-inlaid black lacquer bottle of high shouldered tapering rectangular form. The bottle is decorated on one side with a paradise fly catcher perched in the branches of a flowering tree. The reverse is decorated with two figures crossing a footbridge and a fisherman in a boat floating down river. The second, 1800-1900, is finely carved on both sides through the black layer to the cinnabar-red ground with the Eight Daoist Immortals above a petal-lappet band. The narrow sides are carved with peony emerging from rockwork.
2 13/16 in. and 2 11/16 in. (7.2 cm. and 6.3 cm.) high (2)
1800-1940
The first, Japanese, 1860-1940, is a mother-of-pearl-inlaid black lacquer bottle of high shouldered tapering rectangular form. The bottle is decorated on one side with a paradise fly catcher perched in the branches of a flowering tree. The reverse is decorated with two figures crossing a footbridge and a fisherman in a boat floating down river. The second, 1800-1900, is finely carved on both sides through the black layer to the cinnabar-red ground with the Eight Daoist Immortals above a petal-lappet band. The narrow sides are carved with peony emerging from rockwork.
2 13/16 in. and 2 11/16 in. (7.2 cm. and 6.3 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Japanese bottle:
Christie's New York, 11 June 1997, lot 212.
Jana Volf, New York, 1997.
Carved lacquer bottle:
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey.
Sotheby's Arcade, 20 September 1995, lot 314.
Jana Volf, New York, 1995.
Christie's New York, 11 June 1997, lot 212.
Jana Volf, New York, 1997.
Carved lacquer bottle:
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey.
Sotheby's Arcade, 20 September 1995, lot 314.
Jana Volf, New York, 1995.
Literature
Carved lacquer bottle:
Schuyler Cammann, Miniature Art from Old China. Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Montclair Art Museum Collections, New Jersey, 1982, no. 419.
Schuyler Cammann, Miniature Art from Old China. Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Montclair Art Museum Collections, New Jersey, 1982, no. 419.
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