Lot 145
COLLECTION OF THIRTEEN SNUFF BOTTLES Y
QING DYNASTY/REPUBLIC PERIOD
Auction: 20 March 2018 at 11:00 GMT
Description
comprising: an ivory bottle, incised with a dragon and a phoenix; another ivory bottle, incised with a dragon and a pair of cranes; a blue-ground Canton enamel bottle, painted with a pair of magpies amid flowering prunus; a flattened porcelain bottle, enamelled with two phoenix; a yellow glazed porcelain bottle; a yellow-ground porcelain bottle, painted with magpies perched on prunus branches, with apocryphal Qianlong mark; a similar ruby-ground porcelain bottle, of flattened form and with apocryphal Qianlong mark; another similar purple-ground double-gourd porcelain bottle, with apocryphal Qianlong mark; a flattened porcelain bottle, painted with figures, with apocryphal Qianlong mark; a blue and white bottle, painted with birds and plants; another blue and white flattened pear-shape bottle, painted with two dragons amid clouds, with Gu Yue Xuan mark; a Canton famille rose bottle, with apocryphal Qianlong mark; an iron-red decorated blue and white bottle, painted with figures in a pavilion, Yongzheng mark but 19th century (13)
Dimensions
largest 9.5cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
From the collection of the late Graham Harding (1870s-1949), international insurance loss adjustor for Toplis & Harding, acquired during his business travels to China in the early 20th century, thence by direct family descent.