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    11 June 2008

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    • TABATIERE EN GRES YIXING EMAIL
    Lot 46

    TABATIERE EN GRES YIXING EMAILLE

    CHINE, XIXEME SIECLE

    Price realised

    EUR 8,750

    Estimate

    EUR 3,500 - EUR 3,800

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    TABATIERE EN GRES YIXING EMAILLE
    CHINE, XIXEME SIECLE
    De forme ovale, reposant sur un petit pied, à décor polychrome vert, jaune, brun et bleu sur fond blanc, de paysage lacustre et montagneux, les pics rocheux agrémentés de pavillons et arbres, le soleil rouge, le bouchon en grès émaillé
    Hauteur avec le bouchon: 7,6 cm. (3 in.)

    Provenance

    Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 20 January 1977, lot 24.
    Collection of Miss Marjorie Luman, purchased by her father between 1938-1941.

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    Lot Essay

    See another Yixing pottery snuff bottle painted with the same palette and decorated with similar mountain lanscape and pagodas, illustrated in Chinese Snuff Bottles, A Miniature Art From The Collection of Mary and Georges Bloch, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 18 March - 8 June 1994, The Urban Council, 1994, p.258, pl.199.

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    " f " : In addition to the regular Buyer’s premium, a commission of 7% (i.e. 7.49% inclusive of VAT for books, 8.372% inclusive of VAT for the other lots) of the hammer price will be charged to the buyer. It will be refunded to the Buyer upon proof of export of the lot outside the European Union within the legal time limit.(Please refer to section VAT refunds)


    Pre-Lot Text

    PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF CHARLES V. SWAIN

    Post Lot Text

    A POLYCHROME-ENAMELLED YIXING STONEWARE SNUFF BOTTLE
    CHINA, 19TH CENTURY


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