JAPAN, THE GOLD AND CINNABAR MASTER, 1860-1930

Details

A CARVED RED LACQUER AND GILT SNUFF BOTTLE
JAPAN, THE GOLD AND CINNABAR MASTER, 1860-1930
The bottle is carved on either side with a recessed cartouche, on one side depicting a lady seated in a garden beneath a pine tree and on the other with two boys beneath a pine branch, all surrounded by decorative diapers and swirling gilt clouds on the shoulder and neck.
2 7/16 in. (6.4 cm.) high, glass stopper

Provenance

Hartman Rare Art, New York, 1959.
Gerd Lester Collection, 1986.
Snuff Bottles from the Mary and George Bloch Collection: Part II; Bonham's Hong Kong, 23 November 2010, lot 85.
Robert Kleiner, London, 2010.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5111.

Literature

"Kleiner Bloch Collection," JICSBS, Autumn 1996, p. 6, no. 214, fig. 5.
Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 7, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2009, pp. 551-553, no. 1699.

Exhibited

London, Sydney L. Moss, Ltd., October 1987.
Vienna, Creditanstalt, May-June 1993.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

In the footnote to this bottle in Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 7, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2009, pp. 551-553, the authors note that it falls within an identifiable group of carved Japanese lacquer bottles, all by the same hand. The group is distinguished by the cleverly balanced mixture of red and gold lacquer and the composition of a shaped panel on either side below a leiwen band. All of the bottes in this group exhibit the high level of artistry that was prevalent on 19th-century Japanese lacquer wares.

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