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

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.