AN EMBELLISHED AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE

THE BOTTLE, 1750-1850; EMBELLISHMENT JAPANESE, TSUDA FAMILY, KYOTO, 1920-1940

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AN EMBELLISHED AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
THE BOTTLE, 1750-1850; EMBELLISHMENT JAPANESE, TSUDA FAMILY, KYOTO, 1920-1940
The bottle is of flattened rounded form and is carved from pale grey stone with attractive darker inclusions. It is embellished in shell, enamel, and lacquer on both sides with a continuous scene of two elegant ladies and their attendants, strolling amidst rockwork, flowering trees and plants.
2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) high, glass stopper, shell spoon

Provenance

Lilla S. Perry Collection.
Edward C. O'Dell Collection.
John Ford, Baltimore, 1983.

Exhibited

Taipei Gallery, New York, Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1-29 October 1993, p. 11.

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Lot Essay

Part of a group of Japanese-embellished bottles created by Tsuda Sokan and his son Tsuda Fukuya, this bottle displays a masterful use of materials on an attractive Chinese agate bottle. 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, Organic, Metal, Mixed Media, 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 Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Baltimore, Autumn 1999, front cover. Two other finely embellished examples from the J & J Collection were sold in these rooms, 29 March 2006, lot 40, and 22 March 2007, lot 15.

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