EMBELLISHMENT, TSUDA FAMILY, KYOTO, JAPAN, 1900-1935; BOTTLE, CHINA, 1770-1880

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, 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 JICSBS, Autumn 1999, Baltimore, front cover. Two other finely embellished examples from the J & J Collection were sold at Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 40, and 22 March 2007, lot 15.