IRON-RED AND UNDERGLAZE BLUE 'LOTUS SCROLL' DOUBLE SNUFF BOTTLE
POSSIBLY IMPERIAL, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
£3,780
Auction: 17 May 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
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
Dimensions
6.3cm high
Provenance
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.
Footnote
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.