£3,780
Auction: 17 May 2024 from 10:00 BST
清 或爲官窯 青花礬紅彩番蓮紋雙連鼻烟壺
of conjoined cylindrical form, one painted in underglaze blue, the other in iron red, both decorated with a similar design of lotus scroll, with a wooden stand
6.3cm high
Private Scottish collection, Edinburgh; collected Asian Art in the 1960s to 1970s whilst working in Asia for The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (HSBC) as a senior executive, thence by descent.
Three highly comparable examples, all proposed to be possibly of the Qing Imperial kiln, respectively sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 23 November 2014, lot 138; Bonhams Hong Kong, 27 May 2012, lot 90; and Christie's New York, 16 Mar 2016, lot 446.