[PRIVATE SCOTTISH COLLECTION, EDINBURGH] TWO CHINESE PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLES
QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 16 May 2025 from 09:00 BST
Description
清 青花釉裏紅西遊記人物故事圖 及 道光款 粉彩花蝶紋鼻煙壺(共兩件)
the underglaze blue with copper red bottle of tall oval form, painted around the body with a narrative scene from Journey to the West, the base painted with Zhu Bajie, one of the major characters in the fiction, with a red coloured stopper; the famille rose bottle of compressed globular form, finely painted with butterflies and plants, the base inscribed with a four-character Daoguang mark in iron-red, with an agate stopper, on wooden stands (2)
Dimensions
heights without stoppers: 8.1cm and 6cm
Provenance
Private Scottish collection of an avid collector of Asian art over six decades, Edinburgh; Inherited from the current owner’s father.
蘇格蘭私人收藏,愛丁堡,收藏亞洲藝術年逾六旬。繼承自現任藏家之父親。