Alastair Gibson Auctions - Anne Wrangham Snuff Bottle Collection - November 2025 by ALASTAIR GIBSON AUCTIONS

FINE ASIAN ART

THE ANNE WRANGHAM COLLECTION OF CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES

WEDNESDAY 6TH JULY 2022 AT 10.30 AM

LIVE AUCTION

SATURDAY 8TH NOVEMBER 2025 AT 11.00 AM GMT

249 - 253 Long Lane, Bermondsey, London, SE1 4PR

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To include:

The collection of Lt. Col. George Douglas Gray, OBE, MD RAMC (1872 - 1946), lots 1 - 62

Viewing at Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Riverwide House, 6 Mason’s Yard, Duke Street, St James, London SW1Y 6BU:

The collection of Augustus Thorne (1825 - 1901), lots 66 - 71

Friday 31st October 2025 – 12pm – 5pm

Saturday 1st November 2025 – 10am – 5pm

The Xianfeng Emperor’s (1850 - 1861) silver ‘hunting’ flask, lot 73

Sunday 2nd November 2025 – 10am – 5pm

Monday 3rd November 2025 – – 10am – 5pm

Selected pieces of lacquer from the Mike Healy collection, lots 76 - 78

Gerard Hawthorn Ltd, oriental art, lots 89 - 90

Alternative viewing can be arranged 4th – 7th November 2025 10am – 5pm by appointment only

Please contact info@alastairgibsonauctions.com to arrange directly

Snuff bottles and archers rings from the collection of H.G. Beasley (1881 - 1939), lots 106 - 139

Registration closes at 12 noon on Friday 7th November

The Mujintang collection, Taipei, lots 172 - 222

Front cover:

Viewing in London:

Monday 4th July 2022 10am - 5pm

Tuesday 5th July 2022 10am - 5pm

Registration closes at 12 noon on Tuesday 5th July 2022

Back cover: Lot 214

There will be no viewing on the morning of the sale

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Alastair Gibson, MRICS

Marie Ma

Andrew Huyan

Stephen Loakes

Suzannah Yip

Alastair Gibson, MRICS

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NEOLITHIC 新石器時代

c.6500-1700 BC

XIA DYNASTY 夏

c.2100-1600 BC

SHANG DYNASTY 商

c.1600-1100 BC

ZHOU DYNASTY 周 c.1100-221 BC

Western Zhou 西周 c.1100-771 BC

Eastern Zhou 東周 770-256 BC

Spring and Autumn Period 春秋 770-476 BC

Warring States Period 戰國 475-221BC

QIN DYNASTY 秦 221-206 BC

HAN DYNASTY 漢 206 BC-AD 220

Western Han西漢 206 BC - AD 8

Eastern Han 東漢 AD 25-220

THREE KINGDOMS 三國 220-280

Wei 魏 220-265

Shu Han 蜀漢 221-263

Wu 吳 222-280

JIN DYNASTY 晉 265-420

Western Jin 西晉 265-317

Sixteen Kingdoms 十六國 304-439

Eastern Jin 東晉 317-420

CHRONOLOGY OF CHINA

SOUTHERN DYNASTIES 南朝

420-589

Liu Song 劉宋 420-479

Southern Qi 南齊 479-502

Liang 梁 502-557

Chen 陳 557-589

NORTHERN DYNASTIES 北朝

386-581

Northern Wei 北魏 386-534

Eastern Wei 東魏 534-550

Western Wei 西魏 535-556

Northern Qi 北齊 550-577

Northern Zhou 北周 557-581

SUI DYNASTY 隋 581-618

TANG DYNASTY 唐 618-907

FIVE DYNASTIES 五代 907-960

Later Liang 後梁 907-923

Later Tang 後唐 923-936

Later Jin 後晉 936-946

Later Han 後漢 947-950

Later Zhou 後周 951-960

LIAO DYNASTY 遼 907-1125

SONG DYNASTY 宋 960-1279

Northern Song 北宋 960-1127

Southern Song 南宋 1127-1279

JIN DYNASTY 金 1115-1234

YUAN DYNASTY 元 1271-1368

MING DYNASTY 明1368-1644

Hongwu 洪武 1368-1398

Jianwen 建文 1399-1402

Yongle 永樂 1403-1425

Hongxi 洪熙 1425

Xuande 宣德 1462-1435

Zhengtong 正統 1436-1449

Jingtai 景泰 1450-1456

Tianshun 天順 1457-1464

Chenghua 成化 1465-1487

Hongzhi 弘治 1488-1505

Zhengde 正德 1506-1521

Jiajing 嘉靖 1522-1566

Longqing 隆慶 1567-1572

Wanli 萬曆 1573-1620

Taichang 泰昌 1620

Tianqi 天啓 1621-1627

Chongzhen 崇禎 1628-1644

QING DYNASTY 清 1644-1911

Shunzhi 順治 1644-1661

Kangxi 康熙 1662-1722

Yongzheng 雍正 1723-1735

Qianlong 乾隆 1736-1795

Jiaqing 嘉慶 1796-1820

Daoguang 道光 1821-1850

Xianfeng 咸豐 1851-1861

Tongzhi 同治 1862-1874

Guangxu 光緒 1875-1908

Xuantong 宣統 1908-1911

REPUBLIC OF CHINA 中華民國 1912Hongxian (YUAN SHI KAI) 洪憲 (袁世凱) 1915-1916

PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

中華民國 1949-

THE ANNE WRANGHAM COLLECTION OF CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES

It gives me great pleasure to introduce the extensive collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, formed by the late Anne Wrangham, 1933-2025.

Anne passed away earlier this year leaving behind her comprehensive collection of approximately two-hundred and seventy snuff bottles of various, shapes, colours, sizes and materials, representing the accumulation of a lifetime’s interest, spent passionately within this fascinating microcosm of Chinese Art.

Anne Wrangham, (neé Jackson) was married to the renowned connoisseur of Japanese Art, Edward A. Wrangham O.B.E. (1928-2009), whose passion was the study of Japanese inrõ, and resulted in the seminal publication: The Index of Inrõ Artists, Harehope, 1995, known as the ‘Wrangham Index’.

Edward, (known as ‘Ted’) encouraged his wife to form her own collection of related works of art, whilst spending his time focussing primarily on Japanese Art. Anne came up with the related field in size and scale to Ted’s interests and focussed on Chinese Snuff Bottles!

Her first purchase in 1966, acquired from Armin Lemp, Zurich (lot 1) was a slender jade bottle, inscribed with one of the Qianlong Emperor’s poems. Distinctly Chinese in taste, with its subtle use of the stone and precise calligraphy. One wonders why this was the first bottle purchased? Sadly, Anne did not record that particular detail.

However, she did keep an extensive record of most bottles purchased between 1966-2005, her main period of collecting, (many of which have the relevant invoices available), detailing the purchase price and a few comments mentioned in her notebooks, beside the entries on each bottle.

Connoisseur dealers and collectors are listed in the inventory: Hugh M. Moss, (sixteen bottles) Clare Lawrence (fortyeight bottles), Robert Kleiner (forty-four bottles) and Robert Hall (thirty-one bottles). Anne also bought from Christie’s, Sotheby’s and other smaller auction houses and dealers, primarily in London, New York and Hong Kong. All at a time when it was harder to keep abreast of markets before the internet age which we are so easily accustomed to now.

One can only imagine the excitement in the study of Anne and Ted Wrangham’s on a cold Winters night in front of the fire at Harehope Hall, Northumberland when that month’s auction and dealer’s catalogues would appear, to consider what was worth adding to their respective Chinese and Japanese collections.

It is remarkable to think that the collection was formed over thirtynine years, guided by expert dealers and reassuring for today’s snuff bottle collectors to have the opportunity to bid on bottles with detailed provenance from the last half of the 20th century.

Alastair Gibson MRICS

安妮·兰厄姆 (Anne Wrangham) 中国鼻烟壶收藏

我在此非常荣幸的介绍安妮兰厄姆（Anne Wrangham, 1933–2025）广泛而丰富的中国鼻烟壶收藏。安妮于今年初辞世，留下了一批约二百七十件鼻烟壶收藏，涵盖多种形制、色彩、尺寸与材质。这代表了她毕生兴趣的积累，凝聚着她对这一迷人微观中国艺术世界的热情与执着。

安妮·兰厄姆（婚前姓 Jackson）是著名日本艺术鉴藏家爱德华·A·兰厄姆爵士（Edward A. Wrangham O.B.E., 1928–2009）的妻子。爱德华热爱研究日本印籠，并于 1995 年出版了奠基性著作《印籠艺术家索引》（The Index of Inrō Artists，Harehope, 1995），学界称之为“兰厄姆索引” 。 “

泰德”（Ted，爱德华的昵称），鼓励妻子发展出属于她自己的收藏方向，而他本人则主要专注于日本艺术。于是，安妮选择了一个与印籠在体量和规模上相近的领域，并醉心于中国鼻烟壶的收藏！

她的第一件藏品购于 1966 年，是一件刻有乾隆皇帝御题诗的玉制鼻烟壶。其来自于苏黎世的阿明·伦普（Armin Lemp）（拍品 1）。此件鼻烟壶风格独具中国审美之韵味，石料的巧妙运用与书法的精确刻工皆堪称绝妙。他人不禁要问，为何她会以此作为首件收藏？遗憾的是，安妮并未留下相关记载。

不过，在 1966 年至 2005 年的收藏时期，她为大部分鼻烟壶建立了详尽记录（其中不少仍附有购入发票），标明了购买价格，并在笔记中对个别鼻烟壶留下简要评论。

名列她收藏清单中的著名经销商与藏家包括：休·M·莫斯（Hugh M. Moss，16 件）、克莱尔劳伦斯（Clare Lawrence，48 件）、罗伯特克莱纳（Robert Kleiner，44 件）、以及罗伯特·霍尔（Robert Hall，31 件）。此外，安妮还从佳士得、苏富比及伦敦、纽约与香港的多家中小型拍卖行和经销商购入。那是互联网尚未普及的年代，要随时掌握市场动向并非易事。

人们不难想象，每当当月的拍卖与经销商图录送至书房之时，在寒冷冬夜的哈雷霍普庄园（Harehope Hall, Northumberland），安妮与泰德会坐在壁炉旁，满怀期待地翻阅，讨论哪些值得纳入他们各自的中国与日本收藏。

令人惊叹的是，这一鼻烟壶收藏历经三十九年的积累，得到专家经销商的指导，最终成型。对于今日的鼻烟壶收藏者而言，这批作品尤显珍贵，因为它们不仅具备艺术价值，更拥有 20 世纪下半叶来详尽可靠的收藏来源，提供了难得的竞投机会。

1 A CELADON JADE ‘IMPERIAL POEM ON THE WEST COURT CRAB-APPLE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

QIANLONG PERIOD, 1736-1795

Of flattened ovoid shape, one side carved with crab-apple blossom, the other side with a continuous branch of apples, accentuated by a russet striation in the stone with a thirty-four character poem by the Qianlong Emperor (Anne Wrangham cat. no.1)

5.5cm

Provenance:

Armin Lemp, Zurich, Switzerland, 13th July 1966

For a similar inscribed bottle see Chinese Snuff Bottles from The Fernhill Park Collection, an Exhibition and Sale, The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, 9th-13th October 1991, cat no. 52, p.16

£3,000-4,000

2 A CARVED BROWN AGATE CAMEO ‘PINE AND CRANE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1760-1860

Of shouldered form, carved to one side with a crane beneath a gnarled pine tree the reverse with a lion-dog and bat beneath a full moon (AW3)

6cm

Provenance:

Douglas Wright whilst at Spink & Son Ltd, 1968

£1,500-2,500

A POTTERY TURQUOISE-GLAZED SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Covered in a rich glassy translucent crackle-glaze, the mask and ring handles picked out in brown (AW5)

5.2cm

Provenance: Edinburgh 1969

£150-200

4 A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘RED ROOSTER’ SNUFF BOTTLE

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered rectangular form, painted in iron-red on either side with a cockerel (AW6)

6.5cm

Provenance:

Estelle Chapman, 1970

£300-500

5 A BANDED AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE

1760-1860

Of shouldered ovoid form with mock mask and ring handles, with a smoky band of dark brown around the body (AW7)

5.8cm

Provenance: Hugh Moss, July 1970

Illustrated:

An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, June 1970, p.27, cat. no.84

£2,000-3,000

A PALE APRICOT-GREY CARVED AGATE ‘FIVE BATS’ WUFU SNUFF BOTTLE

1800-1880

Of shouldered form, carved in the round with five bats, ‘wufu’, recessed base (AW8)

5cm

Provenance:

Hugh Moss, July 1970

Illustrated:

An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, June 1970, p.33, cat. no.112

£800-1,200

A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘FIVE BATS’ WUFU SNUFF BOTTLE

1840-1890

Of shouldered tapering form, painted with five copper-red bats issuing from a cloud scroll reserved against a copper-red and underglaze-blue and grey rocky ground, the unglazed base with a concentric circular design (AW9)

6.2cm

Provenance:

Hugh Moss July 1970

Illustrated:

An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, June 1970, p.78, cat. no. 323

£400-600

A CARVED GREEN DUANSTONE ‘CHILONG’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1800-1900

Carved with mock mask and ring handles, one side with two cavorting dragons, the other side with a circular panel contained stylised gui dragons (AW14)

5.6cm

Provenance:

Hugh Moss, July 1970

Illustrated:

An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, June 1970, p.39, cat. no.140

£1,500 -2,500

A SANCAI-GLAZED CARVED PORCELAIN ‘DRAGON AND PEARL’ SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered cylindrical form, carved in high-relief with a threeclawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl, picked out in blue, green and aubergine against a yellow ground (AW16)

8cm

Provenance: C. Barratt, London, May 1971

£200-300

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘DRAGONS AND MYTHICAL BEASTS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1860-1920

Of slender flattened form, painted in iron-red with a five-clawed dragon amongst aquatic beasts, all on an incised wave-strewn ground (AW17) 7.8cm

Provenance:

Hugh Moss, August 1970

Illustrated:

An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hugh M. Moss, London, 1970, p.69, cat. no. 282

£400-600

A RED AND WHITE OVERLAY GLASS ‘DRAGON’ SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1821-1850

Of globular form, carved with a continuous scene of two opposing dragons over a wave-strewn and whitish bubble ground, convex oval foot (AW18)

5.5cm

Provenance:

Hugh Moss, May 1971

Illustrated:

An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hugh M. Moss, London, 1970, p.51 cat. no.200

£1,000-1,500

AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

SIGNED YE SHUYING, BEIJING, 20TH CENTURY

Of globular form, painted with a magnolia spray to one side, inscribed in black and with red artist’s seal:

叶澍英

北京

Ye Shuying, Beijing, the other side with a bird perched amongst red branches and bamboo issuing from rockwork (AW19) 5.4cm

Provenance:

Hugh Moss, May 1971

A similar snuff bottle by this artist was sold by Christie’s Paris, 13th June 2025, lot 655

£400-600

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘FIVE BUTTERFLIES’ SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK OF DAOGUANG AND OF THE PERIOD, 1821-1850

Of shouldered globular form, well painted with butterflies to either side (AW20)

5.5cm

Provenance:

Hugh Moss, June 1971

£1,000-1,500

A WHITISH JADE ‘PEONY’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1850

Of flattened circular form, carved to either side with a seven-petaled peony bloom, flanked by lion mask and ring handles, on an oval recessed foot (AW22)

5.4cm

Provenance: December 1971, Edinburgh

£800-1,200

A YELLOW AND BLUE OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1800-1900

Of slender shouldered form with blue mock mask and ring handles, the translucent yellow glass, wide mouth and convex blue glass oval foot

5.5cm (AW23)

Provenance: Hugh Moss, August 1972

‘Present from Ted’. ‘Said by Adrian Joseph ‘not to have been seen before’

£1,000-1,500

A CARVED SMOKEY-COLOURED ROCK CRYSTAL OCTALOBED SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered tapering lobed form, carved with ruyi head panels around the shoulder with pendant drops, the foot with lotus petals (AW24)

4.6cm

Provenance:

Christie’s London, 9th October 1972, lot 159

£400-600

A CARVED GREEN GLASS ‘CHILONG’ SNUFF BOTTLE

PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1750-1850

The glass of transparent lime green tone, carved to each side with a chilong dragon, their tails forming the base, 5.2cm (AW25)

Provenance:

Estelle Chapman, London, 24th October 1972

For a similar example in The Water Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles, 水松石山房鼻煙壺珍藏 see cat. no. 34.2.1529

Another similar is illustrated by Hugh M. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, London 1971, pp.114-115, cat. no. 237

£300-400

AN AMETHYST GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1750-1850

Of flattened slender globular form, the amethyst-coloured glass of smoky tone, flat base (AW26) 4cm

Provenance:

Estelle Chapman, 24th October 1972

£300-500

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘LINGZHI FUNGUS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL SIX-CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK 19TH CENTURY

Of octagonal shoulder form, painted with Lingzhi sprigs, six-character mark to base (AW27)

5.6cm

Provenance:

Siam galleries, Amsterdam, November 1973

£200-300

A TEA-DUST GLAZED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

1770-1850

Of flattened shouldered globular form, the irregular glaze running from the shoulder, the neck ground exposing the porcelain body (AW28)

5.8cm

Provenance:

Hugh Moss, July 1975

£300-400

A YELLOW AND BLUE PORCELAIN ‘LOTUS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered bottle form, painted with lotus flowers and foliage in blue enamel against a yellow ground (AW30) 6cm

Provenance:

Douglas Wright, Curzon St, London, December 1975

£300-400

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘ZHONG QUI DEMON SLAYER’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK OF QIANLONG

19TH CENTURY

Of stout shouldered rectangular form, painted to one side with Zhong Qui riding a mule, the other side with a demon holding a vase of flowers (AW34)

6cm

Provenance:

Christie’s London, 18th June 1973, lot 1

The Ko Collection, 1291/7. Purchased by Douglas Wright

£800-1,200

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘TWELVE MONTHS OF HAPPINESS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

FOUR-CHARACTER IRON-RED SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG, 1821-1850

Of shouldered rectangular form, painted with twelve magpies amongst flowering prunus branches (AW32)

5.8cm

Provenance:

Estelle Chapman, 1975

£1,500-2,500

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘HUNTING’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL FOUR-CHARACTER CHENGHUA MARK

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered rectangular form painted with a continuous scene of Mandarin officials hunting, one side inscribed with a four-character inscription which reads:

旗旗得胜 Qi QI De Sheng (‘winning as soon as the banners are raised.’)

德胜门 (‘Deshengmen’ (Gate of Virtuous Victory) (AW29)

7cm

Provenance: Douglas Wright, Curzon St, London, December, 1975

The origin of Deshengmen is related to the Ming dynasty general Xu Da. In 1367, he led an army of 250,000 northward to attack the Yuan dynasty. After Xu Da led his troops to capture a Yuan dynasty general, to prevent the Yuan army from making a comeback, he built an earthen wall. He reconstructed the city defences approximately 2.5 kilometres south of Jiande Gate, and opened a new city gate, naming it ‘Deshen men’ (Gate of Virtuous Victory) in today’s Beijing

£200-300

A RUBY-RED GLASS CARVED SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1700-1840

Of stout shouldered bulbous form, of transparent ruby-red glass, cut with two circular panels, wide open mouth and flat foot, re-polished (AW35)

5.5cm

Provenance:

Hadrian Antiques, Hexham, June 1973

£300-500

A RUBY-RED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1750-1850

Of shouldered tapering globular form, the transparent ruby-red glass, with wide mouth and flat oval foot (AW31)

3.5cm

Provenance:

Mike Dean, 1975

£300-400

A HONEY-COLOURED SOAPSTONE SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER QIANLONG MARK, 19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered ovoid form, with matching stopper, inscribed with a Tang Dynasty poem

枫桥夜泊 ‘night mooring at Maple Bridge’, by 张继 ‘Zhang Ji’, the inscription reads:

月落乌啼霜满天

江枫渔火对愁眠

姑苏城外寒山寺

夜半钟声到客船

癸巳秋八月书

The moon has set, and crows cry into the night filled with frost Facing the riverbank’s maples and the distant glow of fishing boats, I lie awake in sorrow

Outside the city of Gusu (now Suzhou) stands the Hanshan (Cold Mountain) Temple

At midnight, the sound of its bell drifts across the water to my boat

Written in the eighth month of autumn, in the guisi year. (AW33)

5.2cm overall

Provenance:

Christie’s London, Part I, 14th June 1971, lot 121

The Ko Collection, 674/53, acquired in Jinan Fu, 1928

AW- ‘Douglas Wright bought it for me’

£120-180

A BROWN-SPOTTED AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered ovoid form, the translucent whitish stone with brown ‘bubble tea’ inclusions (AW36)

5.6cm

Provenance: Douglas Wright, 1980

£800 - 1,000

A YIXING POTTERY CIRCULAR SNUFF BOTTLE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Of flattened cylindrical form, with recessed panels (AW37)

5.8cm

Provenance: Hugh Moss, 27th June 1982

£200-300

A BLUE-GLAZED PORCELAIN ‘SCHOLAR AND ATTENDANT’ SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered cylindrical form painted in underglaze-blue with a scholar and attendant, covered in a pale blue glaze (AW38)

7.6cm

Provenance: Hugh Moss, 1971

£200-300

A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘AQUATIC DRAGON’ SNUFF BOTTLE

LATE 19TH CENTURY

Of flattened globular form, painted with a four-claw dragon above crashing waves and other mystical beasts (AW15)

6cm

£300-500

A CARVED PALE AGATE ‘LOTUS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1770-1920

Of slender bottle form with a waisted neck, carved in light-relief with a band of lotus flowers within petal-shaped and stiff-leaved borders, the neck with a further band of ruyi heads (AW40) 7cm

Provenance:

Geoffrey Moss (Sydney Moss Ltd) Grosvenor House, 21st June 1976

£2,000-3,000

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘DRAGON AND ZODIAC’ SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted with a four-clawed dragon amongst cloud scrolls, appearing above the other animals 8.2cm

£300-500

A RED AND WHITE OVERLAY GLASS PEACH-SHAPED ‘WUFU’ SNUFF BOTTLE

18TH CENTURY

The red overlay skilfully carved to resemble a peach, with a band of leafy branches falling from the neck, five bats in flight around the white body, the tip of the fruit red (AW41A) 5cm

Provenance:

Hugh Moss, 30th June 1978

£1,500-2,000

A CARVED AGATE ‘BIRD UNDER A TREE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1760-1860

Of shouldered ovoid form, the natural mottled green markings in the stone used to form a design of a bird beneath a pine tree, a solitary bird to the other side (AW42) 5.2cm

Provenance: Kensington, 1978

£400-600

A TURQUOISE AND WHITE OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

YANGZHOU SCHOOL, DATED 1882

Of shouldered globular form, with mock mask and ring handles, carved to each side with an arrangement of flowers, including lilies, peony and chrysanthemums, each side with an inscription:

九秋图

壬午年作

Jiu Qiu Tu

Picture of the Ninth month of Autumn

Ren Wu Nian Zuo

Made in the Renwu Year

(AW41B)

5.4cm

Provenance:

Hugh Moss, June 1978

Illustrated:

Hugh Moss Chinese Snuff Bottle catalogue 1976, cat. no.12

Wassermann Collection

Illustrated and discussed by Gerrard C. Tsang, Yongchow seal bottles, ICSBS, Journal, June 1979, page 6

£1,500-2,000

A BLUE-OVERLAY AND SNOWFLAKE GLASS ‘GUI DRAGONS’ SNUFF BOTTLE IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1720-1780

Of shouldered ovoid form, carved with two blue overlay chilong dragons over a bubble suffused whitish glass, with black inclusions, wide mouth, recessed convex oval foot (AW45) 6.4cm

Provenance: Spink & Son Ltd, June 1986

£1,500-2,000

38 A CARVED SHADOW AGATE ‘ZHANG QIAN IN A LOG RAFT’ SNUFF BOTTLE SUZHOW SCHOOL, 1780-1860

Of shouldered form, the natural brown markings of the stone highlighting the design of the Han statesman and explorer seated in a log raft on a wave-strewn sea beneath cliffs with lingzhi fungus issuing from rockwork (AW43)

6.2cm

Provenance:

Tai Sing Co., 122 Holly Wood Road, Hong Kong, 1st May 1982

£1,000-1,500

A CARVED AMETHYST ‘PINE TREE, LOTUS AND FROG’ SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of pebble shape, with mock mask and ring handles, a pine tree carved to one side, the other with a frog on a large lotus leaf amongst flowers and cloud scrolls (AW44) 6cm

Provenance:

Geoffrey Moss (Sydney Moss Ltd) Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, June 1974

£200-300

A MONGOLIAN SILVER CORAL AND TURQUOISE INLAID SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of cylindrical form, with rectangular panels enclosing recumbent stags, on a ground of stylised flowers, within borders of coral and turquoise cabouchon’s, matching stopper, 8.5cm overall, together with a Tibetan white-metal ‘Italian mosaic’ snuff bottle, inscribed four-character mark of Guangxu (2) (AW46 & 157)

Provenance:

The silver Mongolian bottle, Lempertz, Cologne, September 1982

The Tibetan bottle, Clare Lawrence Ltd, 15th December 1999

£120-180

A ROCK CRYSTAL ‘COIN’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1790-1830

The flattened globular bottle carved in low-relief based upon the design of a Spanish Eight Reales coin (Pieces of Eight), with a portrait of King Charles III on one side and the Spanish Royal coat-of-arms on the other (AW47) 5.5cm

Provenance:

Kunsthandel Klefisch, Cologne, September 1982

For a discussion of snuff bottles based upon coins, see Moss, Grahmam, Tsang, A Treasure of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol.2, Part I, Hong Kong, 1998, pp.154-157

£300-500

A FACETED BLUE-GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1730-1840

Of shouldered faceted tapering form, the glass of transparent turquoise blue, flat foot (AW48) 6.4cm

Provenance:

Richard Barker at Spink & Son Ltd, February 1984

A similar faceted ruby glass snuff bottle was sold at Christie’s New York 12th September 2018, Lot 659

The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottle’s Part 6

£800-1200

TWO INSIDE-GLASS PAINTED SNUFF BOTTLES

UNSIGNED, MODERN

One of square shouldered form, painted with birds, flowers and insects largest 7cm (2)

£100-200

A HORNBILL ‘CHILONG’ SNUFF BOTTLE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Of flattened shouldered form, with carved red chilong dragon handles to either side (AW49)

5.2cm

Provenance:

‘Present from Ted 1978’

£300-500

A RAY-SKIN SNUFF BOTTLE

20TH CENTURY

Of shouldered globular form (AW50)

5.4cm

Provenance: Ronald Cook, 1986

£200-300

A CARVED RED HARDSTONE DOUBLE-GOURD ‘CRANE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

EARLY 20TH CENTURY

The stone with russet and white inclusions, carved to one side with a crane in flight (AW51)

5.8cm

Provenance: Kensington, June 1986

£100-200

A CARVED BROWN AGATE ‘LOTUS AND PEONY’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1780-1870

Of flattened shouldered form, each side carved with a recessed panel, one side with a tree peony, the other with lotus and a butterfly (AW52)

5.4cm

Provenance: Madrid, November 1986

£300-500

AN ANHUA PORCELAIN ‘LION-DOG, KYLIN AND ELEPHANT’ SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered baluster form, incised with a lion dog, kylin and elephant (AW53)

7.8cm

Provenance:

Lempertz, Cologne, 1982

£200-300

49 A ‘SEA-GREEN’ GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered ovoid form, the opaque glass of dark sea green tone, oval recessed foot (AW54)

5.5cm

Provenance: Spink & Son Ltd, 24th June 1982

£200-300

50 A BUFF-COLOURED JADE RECTANGULAR SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of rectangular shouldered form, each side with a recessed panel, on a recessed canted rectangular foot (AW55)

5.5cm

Provenance: Bonhams London, 18th December 1980, lot 390 W.W.Winkworth Collection

AW - ‘Present from Ted after visit to Uncle Bill (W.W.Winkworth) Isle of Wight’

£200-300

A CARVED ROCK-CRYSTAL ‘CARP AND FISHERMAN’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1860

The stone of smoky tone, carved in low-relief with two fishermen, one catching a giant carp (AW56)

5.2cm

Provenance: Kunsthandel Klefisch, Cologne, 1984

£400-600

AN INSIDE-PAINTED BANDED AGATE AND ‘GOLD FISH’ SNUFF BOTTLE

BEIJING SCHOOL, WANG XISANG, DATED 1976, (THE BOTTLE 1750-1850)

The bottle of shouldered ovoid form, inside painted with a continuous scene of goldfish and exotic fish, the white striation of the stone skilfully used to accentuate the water, eight-character inscription and red seal mark of the artist (AW57)

5cm

Provenance: Kunsthandel Klefisch, Cologne, 1984

£1,500-2,500

A CARVED CELADON AND RUSSET JADE ‘PEEBLE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Carved in the form of a leaf and gourd with a beetle, the russet skin of the stone skilfully used to accentuate the leaves (AW58) 6cm

Provenance: Spink & Son Ltd, 1988

£1,000-2,000

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘MAIDEN AND POEM’ SNUFF BOTTLE APOCRYPHAL FOUR-CHARACTER QIANLONG MARK

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered rectangular form, painted to one side with a classical Chinese maiden with a six-character inscription, the reverse with a circular floral cartouche enclosing a poem, with a four-character mark to the base (AW61)

7cm

Provenance: Edmond F. Dwyer Collection, (Lilla S. Perry) Christie’s London, 12th October, 1987, lot 124 Exhibited LACMA, October/November 1984

£200-300

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘SQUIRREL AND GRAPEVINE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL SIX-CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered tapering ovoid form, painted with squirrels amongst fruiting vines, six-character mark to base 7.2cm

£200-300

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘DRAGON BOAT’ SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered cylindrical form, well painted with sixteen boys engaged in dragon boat racing, the base with an unusual carp and pavilion mark 7cm

£400-600

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘FIVE MONKEYS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL SIX-CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK

MID 19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted with a troupe of monkeys in a continuous landscape, six-character mark to base 7.5cm

£400-600

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘CRANES AND PEACHES’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL FOUR-CHARACTER QIANLONG MARK 1840-1900

Of shouldered ovoid form, densely painted with cranes and peaches, four-character mark to base 5cm

£400-600

A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘DUCKS AND LOTUS POND’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1840-1880

Of shouldered cylindrical form, well painted with five ducks on a lotus pond, the base with a lotus mark

8.5cm

£400-600

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘FIGURES IN LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

JINGDEZHEN, 1800-1830

Of shouldered cylindrical spreading form, painted with a figure holding an umbrella with two boys in a rocky landscape, four-character seal mark to the base, ‘Maochun yazi’, elegantly made by Maochun 8.2cm

For the identification and discussion of this Jingdezhen ceramic artist see A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Block Collection, Moss, Graham, Tsang, Vol. 6, Part 2, cat. no’s 1264-1265 where the author’s recount that only one other blue and white bottle is known

£1,500-2,000

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN MINIATURE DOUBLE-GOURD VASE ‘NANKING CARGO’

CIRCA 1640

Painted with bands of floral scrolls (AW143)

6.5cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 1995

‘The Nanking Cargo’, Christie’s Amsterdam, 28th April-2nd May 1985

£80-120

A ‘REALGAR’ GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

1740-1850

Of shouldered bulbous form, the glass with bright orange, amber and green striations simulating realgar (AW62)

5.5cm

Provenance:

Christie’s New York, 12th October 1987, lot 159

Edmund F. Dwyer Collection Exhibited LACMA, October/November 1984

£400-600

A ‘NINE COLOURS’ PATCHWORK GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1800-1900

Of shouldered ovoid form, the glass of blue, red, amber, pale green, pale blue, turquoise, pink and dark blue patches on a white snowflake ground, blue oval recessed foot (AW63) 6.5cm

Provenance:

Christie’s London, 12th October 1987, lot 268

£1,000-1,500

A HIBISCUS-PINK OVERLAY OVER A WHITE SNOWFLAKE GROUND SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of slender elongated shouldered form, the red-overlay glass suffused with bubbles to resemble ‘crushed strawberries’, the wide mouth and oval recessed foot revealing the white snowflake ground (AW64)

6.7cm

Provenance:

Ronald Cook, 3rd May 1989

£300-500

A CARVED SHADOW AGATE ‘CRABS AND COCKSCOMB AMARANTH’ SNUFF BOTTLE

OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1750-1860

Carved in light relief to one side, the natural dark brown inclusions of the stone skilfully used to depict the crabs and amaranth (AW65) 6.6cm

Provenance: Ronald Cook, May 1989

£1,000-2,000

A SANG-DE-BOEUF GLAZED PORCELAIN ‘DOUBLE-CARP’ SNUFF BOTTLE

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Moulded with a carp to either side, flanking a central column of four trigrams, the rich sang-de-boeuf glaze thinning to accentuate the highlights of the design (AW67)

7.2cm

Provenance:

Sotheby’s Billingshurst, 25th June 1991, lot 239

Sotheby’s Parke Bernet, Hong Kong, 2nd November 1971, lot 23 Arthur Gadsby Collection

£300-500

67 A JAPANESE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL RECTANGULAR SCENT BOTTLE NAMIKAWA YASUYUKI, KYOTO, SIGNED

1845-1927, MEIJI PERIOD, CIRCA 1895

Of slender rectangular form, enamelled with a butterfly and chrysanthemums to one side, the other with prunus, screw top, incised four-character mark to the base (AW66) 8cm overall

Provenance: Barry Davies, May 1990

A similar bottle by this artist was sold at Sotheby’s London, 2008, lot 117 £2,000-3,000

A JAPANESE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL CIRCULAR SCENT BOTTLE

ATTRIBUTED TO NAMIKAWA YASUYUKI, KYOTO, UNSIGNED

1845-1927, MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Of flattened circular form, enamelled to either side with panels of birds and flowers, and insects and flowers, within floral scroll borders, screw top cover (AW108) 6cm overall

Provenance:

Barry Davies, from Malcolm Fairley, November 1993

The design recorded in Kyo Shippo Monyo Shu (A collection of designs for Kyoto enamels), edited by Yoshida Mitsukuni and Nakahara Kenji, Kyoto 1981, p.180

A similar signed scent bottle was sold at Sotheby’s, 3rd November 2021, lot 15, from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

£600-800

A LAPIZ LAZULI SNUFF BOTTLE AND STOPPER

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered ovoid form with matching stopper, the stone with gold striations (AW72)

5cm

Provenance: ‘Present from Ted’ August 1979

£300-500

AN AMBER ‘CHRYSANTHEMUM AND PEONY’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1850

Of flattened shouldered ovoid form, carved with large spray of peonies to one side, the other with chrysanthemums issuing from rockwork (AW73)

5cm

Provenance: Spink & Son Ltd, June 1981

£800-1,000

A FAMILLE-ROSE MOULDED AND RETICULATED ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’ SNUFF BOTTLE

MID 19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered globular form, crisply pierced and carved revealing the unglazed inner body with a ferocious three-clawed dragon to one side, the other with a phoenix, decorated overall in pink, blue, green, aubergine and yellow enamels (AW74)

7cm

Provenance: Robert Hall, 3rd September 1993

£600-800

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘EIGHTEEN LOHAN’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL FOUR-CHARACTER IRON-RED QIANLONG SEAL MARK

1820-1880

Crisply carved and moulded with the eighteen Lohan’s including Pindola and his tiger, highlighted in enamels and gilt, against a ground of cloud scrolls (AW75)

6.6cm

Provenance: Robert Hall, 3rd September 1993 K. Hark Collection

£300-500

A LAC BURGAUTÉ SNUFF BOTTLE

20TH CENTURY

Shangdong Province, of slender ovoid form, decorated with two circular floral panels, reserved against a diaper ground, two-character signature, Sen Ri, matching stopper (AW68)

6cm overall

Provenance:

C. Barrett, London, 1976

£100-200

A RED CARNELIAN SNUFF BOTTLE LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Of ovoid shouldered form, the stone with dark red spots on a light ground, flattened base (AW69)

4.5cm

Provenance:

Sotheby’s London, 6th March 1979, lot 57. Mrs C. G. Baxter

£200-300

AN AMBER ‘PROVERB’ SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of square shouldered form, with recessed panels, incised with four seals to either side:

乐天知命

Le Tian Zhi Ming

Be content with Heaven’s will (AW70)

5cm

Provenance:

起一步想

Qi Yi Bu Xiang

Begin by thinking one step ahead

Sotheby’s Billingshurst, 25th June 1991, lot 197

£500-700

A BAMBOO ‘BEAN POD’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1850-1900

Carved in the form of a flattened bean pod, with pierced leafy tendrils around the neck (AW71)

5.5cm

Provenance:

Sotheby’s Billingshurst, 25th June 1991, lot 184

£300-500

A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered cylindrical form painted with figures in a continuous landscape scene, six-character mark to the base (AW81)

8cm

Provenance: Ronald Cook, 15th May, 1992

£300-500

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘LAOZI DAOIST IMMORTALS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted with three scholars studying a handscroll with a Taijitu symbol (AW82) 7.4cm

Provenance: Ronald Cook, 15th May, 1992

£200-300

A CARVED ‘REALGAR’ GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered ovoid form, the glass of red and amber tone cut away to reveal two chilong dragons, concave oval foot (AW83) 5.5cm

Provenance: Ronald Cook, 1992

£800-1,200

A ROSE-PINK GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

1760-1850

Of stout swelling shouldered form, on a recessed oval foot, 6cm, together with a pink glass snuff dish (2) (AW84 & 101)

Provenance:

The snuff bottle: Ronald Cook, 17th May 1992

The snuff dish: Clare Lawrence Ltd, 16th June 1993

£800-1,200

A GLASS ‘SWIRLED PATTERN’ SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1750-1820

Of shouldered ovoid form, the opaque glass with swirls of white, black, red and yellow (AW77)

6cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 28th November 1991

Dick Hardy Collection illustrated:

Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Dick Hardy Collection, p.25, cat. no. 47

£600-800

A LACQUER ON PORCELAIN ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1840-1880

Of shouldered ovoid form, carved in high-relief with four scholars traversing a mountainous landscape, scattered with pavilions and buildings, matching stopper (AW79) 7.2cm overall

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 28th November 1991

£300-500

A SILVER FIVE-CASED MEDICINE BOTTLE

1850-1900

Of hinged rectangular form, each bottle chased with three-characters:

卧龙丹：Wolong Elixir (Wolong literally means crouching dragon)

萌荷散：Sprouting Lotus Powder

行军散：Marching Powder (traditional medicine for soldiers on long marches)

红灵丹：Red Elixir

时症丸：Seasonal Illness Pill with screw top covers (AW80)

11cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, January 1992

Robert Trojan Collection, Virgin Islands

£100-200

84 A FAMILLE-ROSE AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘HEHE ERXIAN’ SNUFF BOTTLE FOUR-CHARACTER IRON-RED SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG 1736-1795

Of flattened shouldered form, painted to each side with the twin immortals of mirth, within foliate cartouches including bats and flowerheads, traces of gilding (AW87)

5.5cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, June 1992

Harriet Hamilton Collection

A similar snuff bottle from the Mary and George Bloch Collection was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong 25th November 2013, Lot 107

£3,000-5,000

A WHITISH JADE RECTANGULAR SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered rectangular form, carved with raised panels, all on a square recessed foot (AW85)

4.2cm

Provenance: Ronald Cook, 17th May 1992

£200-300

A JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE 1780-1850

Of shouldered ovoid form, the stone with emerald green, black and brown inclusions

4.8cm

£400-600

AN AMBER-COLOURED AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered form, the stone with amber inclusions, recessed oval foot

5.5cm

£600-800

88 A YELLOW-GLAZED AND MOULDED ‘CORN ON THE COB’ PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

2ND HALF 19TH CENTURY (AW88)

7.5cm

Provenance: Clare Lawrence Ltd, 1992

£100-200

89 AN EMERALD-GREEN GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK OF DAOGUANG AND OF THE PERIOD, 1821-1850

Of shouldered ovoid form, the transparent glass of emerald green, recessed oval foot, wheel-cut four-character mark (AW95)

5.5cm

Provenance:

Phillips London, 9th December 1992, lot 299

£800-1,200

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN MINIATURE VASE

VŪNG TÀU CARGO, CIRCA 1690

Of mallet shape, painted with a stylised floral band, above a border of moulded lotus petals (AW89)

5.2cm

Provenance:

‘Present from Ted’ August 1992

£80-120

91 A FAMILE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘IMPERIAL BANNER MEN’ SCENE SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL IRON-RED FOUR CHARACTER QIANLONG SEAL MARK

2ND HALF 19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted with a continuous scene of opposing yellow and white bannermen, beneath a band of cloud scrolls (AW91)

8.5cm

Provenance:

Dennis Crow, October 1992

£700-1,000

A LARGE FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘NINE PEACH’ SNUFF BOTTLE

LATE 19TH CENTURY

Painted with a peach and prunus tree, issuing from a rocky mound, fitted box and stand (AW93)

10cm

Provenance:

Dennis Crow, October 1992

£300-500

A CARVED TOURMALINE ‘KYLIN AND BOOK’ SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered form, the greyish stone with pinkish inclusions, carved in high-relief with a kylin on a cloud scroll and book, the other side with a vase of flowers and a tablet with a four-character inscription:

鳞吐玉书

‘Dragon spitting out writing as precious as jade’ (AW94)

6cm

Provenance:

Phillips London, 9th December 1992, lot 183

£800-1,000

A BLUE AVENTURINE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE IMPERIAL, GLASSWORKS, BEIJING 1740-1800

Of globular shouldered form, the transparent sapphire blue glass with aventurine inclusions, wide open mouth and oval recessed foot (AW100) 5cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 15th June 1993

Johanna Krug Collection

Illustrated: ‘Prisen aus kleinen Tabakflaschen’ by Johanna Krug no. 64, page 38

£1,000-1,500

95 A BLACK LACQUER SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of simple shouldered wine bottle form, 4.3cm; together with a similar ebonised wooden example (2) (AW102 & AW144)

Provenance:

The lacquer bottle: Clare Lawrence Ltd, 16th June 1993

The Thewlis Collection

The wooden bottle: Kunsthandel Klefisch, Cologne, 27th November 1995, lot 147

The Moslé Collection

£100-200

A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘SECOND VISIT OF LIU BA TO ZHENG LIANG’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1840-1880

Of shouldered cylindrical form, finely painted witha continuous figural scene, with elements highlighted in copper-red, four-character inscription, the base with a scrolling band (AW103) 6.5cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 16th June 1993. ‘From her own private Collection’

£400-600

A CARVED AMETHYST QUARTZ ‘MELON’ SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

The greyish/purple stone naturalistically carved in the form of two melons (AW105)

5cm

Provenance: Cranks, Dublin, August 1993

£300-400

A LARGE CARVED CARNELIAN ‘CARP AND CHILONG DRAGON’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1760-1850

The white striation in the stone skilfully used to accentuate the chilong dragon, the carp leaping over its tail all on a pierced wave-strewn ground (AW96)

6.8cm

Provenance:

Phillips London, 9th December 1992, lot 301

£2,000-3,000

A FAMILLE-R0SE ENAMELLED PORCELAIN ‘KATYDID’ SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of elongated cylindrical shouldered form, naturalistically painted with two Katydids, reserved against a café-au-lait ground (AW97) 8cm

Provenance:

Barry Davies, 15th June 1993

£500-700

100

A FAMILLE-R0SE ENAMELLED PORCELAIN ‘KATYDID’ SNUFF BOTTLE IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG

1821-1850

Of globular shouldered form, painted to either side with a large Katydid in predominantly green and yellow enamels, the base with a four-character mark in underglaze-blue, washed over in lime-green enamel (AW98)

5.8cm

Provenance:

Barry Davies, 14th June 1993

£800-1,200

101

A CARVED ROCK-CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE

1820-1890

Of rectangular shouldered form, carved to one side with a prunus tree issuing from rockwork, the sides with bamboo and lillies (AW99)

5.6cm

Provenance:

Barry Davies, 14th June 1993

£200-300

102 A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘LÜ DONGBIN’ LANDSCAPE SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, IRON-RED SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG, 1821-1850

Of generous globular form, painted to one side with the scholar immortal standing before a pavilion, a sword slung across his back, the other side with a demon carrying a lady on his back, with black inscription and three red seals:

青云客渡

青云客状

元生下状

元郎 (AW107)

5.5cm

Provenance:

A scholar is on his path to glory

With the examination paper that is bound for becoming official

And he presents his paper Scholar Yuan

Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 28th October 1993, lot 1254

Eric Young, Societe Jersiaise Collection

Lü Dongbin sanzui Yueyanglou (Lü Dongbin Thrice Intoxicated at the Yueyang Tower), was written by Ma Zhiyuan (d. after 1321). It revolves around the story of Lü Dongbin converting a willow spirit for the Dao. Here the spirit is represented as a demon-like figure with a small willow sprouting from the top of his head. He is carrying his wife, a prunus spirit, on his back through the air. Both run a wine shop in the Yueyang Tower where Lü Dongbin becomes intoxicated

£2,000-3,000

103

A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘WATER MARGIN’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1840-1880

Of shouldered cylindrical form, well painted with Song Jiang and Wu Yong in conversation, each titled in underglaze-blue with a two-character inscription (AW106) 8cm

Provenance:

Anderson & Garland, Newcastle, 17th October 1993, lot 877

From the Collection of Johnson Hood

Exhibited at the Gulbenkian Museum, Durham (now The Oriental Museum)

£1000-1500

104 A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘ANHUA DRAGON’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1800-1850

Of shouldered cylindrical tapering form, incised with a large five-clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl, its pupils picked out in underglaze-blue, above a band of crashing waves, dragon mark to the base (AW109) 6.5cm

Provenance:

Christie’s London, 6th December, 1993, lot 254

Francis and Kay Reif Collection, Vancouver, Canada

£400-600

105

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘WINE JAR’ SNUFF BOTTLE

JINGDEZHEN, 1830-1880

Modelled in the form of an old wine flask, painted with simulated wrattan carrying handles, with various repeated labels: Jiazhong ‘Extra strong’, Fuxing laodian, ‘Fuxing, a long-established shop’ and Zhe Shao chenjiu, ‘Aged wine from Shaoxing in Zhejiang province’, the base painted in iron-red with a shou character (AW110) 5cm

Provenance:

David Bowden, 6th December 1993

For an identical bottle of this type see A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 6, Part 3, cat. no. 1406

£300-500

106

AN OLIVE-GREEN OVERLAY ON WHITE GLASS ‘SCHOLAR AND SPIDER’ SNUFF BOTTLE

YANGZHOU, 1850-1880

Of slender elegant form, the olive-green overlay carved with a seated immortal accompanied by two bats, observing a spider weave its web from a bamboo stalk, the other side with a large web supported from two bamboo plants, another dangling spider beneath, on a green oval foot (AW111) 6cm

Provenance:

Kunsthandel Klefisch, Cologne, 10th December 1993

£1,000-1,500

107

A ‘PEACH BLOOM’ GLAZED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered tapering form, covered in a mottled peach bloom glaze fading to grey at the foot rim (AW113)

7.6cm

Provenance: David Bowden, 3rd March 1994

£200-300

108

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘DRAGON AND TIGER’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL FOUR-CHARACTER QIANLONG MARK

MID 19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted with a four-clawed dragon appearing from a cloud confronting a tiger, four-character mark to base (AW114)

7.8cm

Provenance: David Bowden, 3rd March 1994

£400-600

109

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘LANDSCAPE AND CALLIGRAPHY’

RECTANGULAR SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL FOUR-CHARACTER QIANLONG MARK, 19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered rectangular form, painted with a continuous landscape with a scholar, shepherd and farmer, four-character mark to base (AW115)

7.2cm

Provenance: Clare Lawrence Ltd, 25th April 1994. ‘From her own private collection’

£300-400

110

A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘BATTLE SCENE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL SIX-CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK

1860-1900

Of shouldered cylindrical form, well painted with cavalry solders in a continuous landscape fighting a dragon, the details of the landscape finely picked out in copper-red, the neck with a band of prunus on a ‘cracked-ice’ ground, six-character mark to base (AW117)

7.5cm

Provenance: Clare Lawrence Ltd, 25th April, 1994

£500-700

111

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘SCHOLAR AND ATTENDANT’ RECTANGULAR SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL FOUR-CHARACTER MARK OF CHENGHUA

1780 - 1850

Of shouldered rectangular form, decorated to each side with canted raised panels, depicting scholars and attendants, one carrying a Qin, the sides inscribed with panels:

指日穿梭

生生夏日行

元人笔法

抱琴访友 (AW116)

7cm

Provenance:

Quickly moving to the near future

A vivid summer journey In Yuan Literati style

Visiting a friend with a Qin

Clare Lawrence, 25th April 1994

£400-600

112

A DARK BROWN AND WHITISH COLOURED JADE ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1820

Of shouldered ovoid form, with mock mask and ring handles, carved to one side with a fisherman and farmer, the other side with a scholar seated before a rocky outcrop with a recumbent goat (AW119)

6.8cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 9th June 1994

Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 28th October 1992, lot 396

£1,000-2,000

113

A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘ARCHER’ SNUFF BOTTLE SHENDE TANG HALL MARK

1870-1930

Of shouldered rectangular form with prominent mock mask and ring handles, painted to one side with a standing archer with a long inscription the other side with an arched tablet with calligraphic dedication (AW120)

6.6cm

£200-300

114 A FAMILLE-ROSE ENAMELLED PORCELAIN ‘SCHOLAR AND ATTENDANT’ POEMS SNUFF BOTTLE IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG, 1820-1851

Of generous shouldered form, painted to one side with a seated scholar and attendant in his studio, surrounded by ‘antiques’, encircled by a twenty-character inscription, the other side inscribed in a circle with a romantic poem (AW112)

6cm

Provenance: Clare Lawrence Ltd, 14th January 1994

A similar bottle sold Christie’s New York, 24th March 2022, lot 801 £5,000-7,000

115

A BROWN STONEWARE ENAMELLED ‘BAMBOO, BIRDS AND POEM’ SNUFF BOTTLE BEIJING, 1800-1850

Painted to one side with swallows and bamboo, in white and green enamel, with a seven-character inscription, the reverse with a seventeen-character inscription in green, impressed mark to base, ‘Jun de’ (a virtuous and talented person) (AW118) 7.2cm

Provenance: Purchased by Clare Lawrence Ltd, Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5th May 1994, lot 1510

Previously sold Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29th April 1992, lot 402

For a similar example in The Water Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles, 水松石山房鼻煙壺珍藏 see cat. no. 35.3.94, attributed to Beijing, where the author recounts: ‘Bob Stevens considered them to be a variety of Yixing pottery, and that designation has stuck, but they are a more highly refined stoneware from which cricket boxes and covers were made in the Beijing area during the Qing dynasty’

£2,000-3,000

116

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘PROCESSIONAL LANDSCAPE SCENE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

RED FOUR-CHARACTER TONGZHI MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, 1862-1874

Of stout globular shouldered form, painted with a processional scene of a mandarin on horseback being presented with refreshments (AW121) 6.6cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 18th July 1994

£800-1,200

117

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘EIGHT IMMORTALS’ OCTAGONAL SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL SIX-CHARACTER MARK OF YONGZHENG

1800-1830

Of fluted slender form, painted with eight immortals floating on cloud scrolls, the neck with three bats, six-character mark to base (AW122)

10.6cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 18th July 1994

£400-600

118

A COPPER-RED, CELADON AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘CAMEL AND ATTENDANT’ SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered baluster form, painted with a continuous landscape scene, four-character mark to base (AW123) 8cm

Provenance:

Nelly Davies, 8th August 1994

‘Present from Ted’

£400-600

119

A CORAL ‘FINGER CITRON’ SNUFF BOTTLE

18TH CENTURY

Carved in the form of an abundant finger citron issuing from a leafy stalk, accompanied by a bat, coral stopper (AW125)

6.5cm overall

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 11th November 1994

Illustrated in ‘TWENTY-SIX FRIENDLY BEASTS FROM THE BURY STREET NATURE RESERVE’

Paula Hallett

The Monimar Collection

£400-600

120

A MOTHER OF PEARL CARVED SNUFF BOTTLE 19TH CENTURY

Of slender shouldered form, loosely carved with a bat and tiger beneath a tree (AW127)

6.2cm

Provenance:

Nelly Davies, 12th November 1994

£200-300

121

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘CRABS AND FROGS’ PEBBLE-SHAPED SNUFF BOTTLE

1821-1850

Painted to one side with frogs in a lotus pond, the other side with two crabs amongst aquatic foliage (AW128) 6cm

Provenance:

Nelly Davies, 12th November 1994

£400-600

122

A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1840-1900

Of shouldered cylindrical form painted with figures on a continuous landscape scene with officials admiring a pony beneath a pine tree, the base with interlinked scroll within the foot rim (AW129) 6.3cm

Provenance:

Nelly Davies, 12th November 1994

£300-500

123

A FAMILLE-ROSE ‘SEVEN SAGES OF THE BAMBOO GROVE’ FAN-SHAPED SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL IRON-RED FOUR CHARACTER MARK OF WANLI, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Of flattened shouldered form, depicting scholars engaged in leisurely pursuits, each side with double-fish hanging pendants in iron-red (AW130)

6.2cm

Provenance:

Nelly Davies, 12th November 1994

£300-500

124

A TURQUOISE-GLAZED AND MOULDED PORCELAIN ‘CHILONG’ SNUFF BOTTLE

LATE 18TH CENTURY

Of globular form with silver-mounted neck and foot (AW131)

5.4cm

Provenance:

David Bowden, 28th February 1995

Harry Ross Collection, Wimbledon, 1950-60’s

£300-400

125

A GREEN SOAPSTONE ‘LION-DOGS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered rectangular form, with mock mask and ring handles, carved to one side with two lion dogs playing with a brocaded ball, the other side with an eight-character archaistic inscription: 维王五侯永宝盒

Wei Wang Wu Hou Yong Bao He

The ever-treasured box of Prince Wei and five Marquises (AW132)

6.5cm

Provenance:

David Bowden, 28th February 1995

£200-300

126

A YELLOW/GREEN AND RUSSET JADE ‘CRANES IN LANDSCAPE’

SNUFF BOTTLE

‘MASTER OF THE ROCKS SCHOOL’ 1750-1850

Of shouldered form, the yellow/greenish stone with russet inclusions, carved with a crane in flight amongst cloud scrolls, a two-storey pagoda on a rocky cliff to the other side, oval recessed foot (AW133)

6.2cm

Provenance: David Bowden, 28th February 1995

£800-1,200

127

A WHITE JADE CARVED ‘SEAL’ SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH

CENTURY

Of shouldered ovoid form, the base carved with a two-character seal, which reads Qing, ‘Pure, clear, uncorrupted’ and Qin, ‘diligent, hardworking’ (AW134)

5.6cm

Provenance: David Bowden, 28th February 1995

‘These two words were often used as an official motto as advice or warnings given to government officials. Often intended to guide their conduct and promote ethical behaviour within the government’

£800-1,200

128

A CARVED JASPER SNUFF BOTTLE

1760-1880

Of stout shouldered form carved with mock mask and ring handles, the stone of olive-green tone with red lava-like striations (AW135) 5.2cm

Provenance:

David Bowden, 28th February 1995

Sotheby’s Billingshurst, 25th June 1991, lot 127

£1,500-2,000

129

A WHITE ARAGONITE RECTANGULAR SNUFF BOTTLE

1780-1850

Of shouldered rectangular form, each side with a raised panel, on a rectangular recessed foot (AW136) 5.6cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 28th February 1995

Hall recounts: ‘This is a charming small and well finished example-often aragonite bottles are large and not well made…..it does not appear often in snuff bottles.’

£200-300

130

A FOSSILIFEROUS LIMESTONE SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1860

Of elegant rounded shouldered form, raised on a recessed oval foot, the stone with grey and red inclusions (AW137) 6.2cm

Provenance:

Sotheby’s London, 21st June 1995, lot 51

Cai Shi Xuan Collection

A bottle of similar tone from The Collection of Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3rd December 2021, lot 1040

£400-600

131

A FLAMBE-GLAZED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK OF QIANLONG, 1821-1850

Of stout globular form, covered in a running flambé glaze, suffused with shades of lavender and purple, four-character mark in underglaze-blue (AW138) 7cm

Provenance:

Sotheby’s London, 21st June 1995, lot 137

Cai Shi Xuan Collection

£400-600

132

A PUCE-ENAMELLED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

1780-1850

Of slender shouldered form, each side with a raised circular panel painted with an idealised mountain landscape in pink enamel (AW 140)

6.5cm

Provenance: David Bowden, 1995

AW- ‘Said to have been sold by Hugh Moss-no leeway on price again Sotheby’s Hong Kong 3rd May 1995, lot 621 Very similar if not the identical bottle’

A very similar bottle was also illustrated in The Ko Collection, Christie’s Hong Kong, 14th June 1971, Part I, lot 99

£800-1,200

133

A COBALT-DECORATED BISCUIT PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

1830-1870

Of elegant slender pear shape, well painted with a full-blown tree peony issuing from rockwork to one side, the other with butterflies, all beneath a pendant border to the neck (AW141)

8cm

Provenance: Christie’s London, 18th October 1992, lot 33

Rita Reif Collection

£400-600

134 A CARVED HAIR-CRYSTAL ‘PINE TREE, ROCK AND PAVILLION’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1760-1880

Of large shouldered form, one side carved in light relief with a pavilion and pine tree in a rocky gorge, the other side scattered with inclusions of black tourmaline needles (AW142)

7cm

Provenance: David Bowden, 1995. AW-‘Said to have been from Moss’

£600-800

135

A JAPANESE LAC BURGAUTÉ FAN-SHAPED SNUFF BOTTLE

1870-1920

Of shouldered form, inlaid with gold and abalone shell, one side with a scene of two boys picking peaches from a tree, the other side a court lady seated beneath a tree, holding a fan, matching stopper (AW146)

6cm overall

Provenance:

Sotheby’s New York, 23rd September 1995, lot 141

Ex Monclaire Museum, no.43.361A

Mrs Florence Osgood Reid (1862-1943)

£800-1,200

136

A FAMILLE-ROSE ‘LIU HAI AND TOAD’ SNUFF BOTTLE

SIX-CHARACTER IRON-RED SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG 1821-1850

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted with a continuous scene of Liu Hai and his three-legged toad with a string of five coins flying through the air (AW147)

7.5cm

Provenance:

Bought at Etude Jutheau, Paris (sic) 13th October 1995, lot 23. By Clare Lawrence Ltd

Edmund F. Dwyer Collection

E. Lloyd Noakes Collection

£1,000-2,000

137 AN OPAQUE GLASS INCISED ‘DUCKS AND CALLIGRAPHY’ SNUFF BOTTLE, APOCRYPHAL QIANLONG SEAL MARK, SEAL OF FAMILY ZUOTIAN, 19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered rectangular form, engraved to one side with geese around a pond, the other side with an inscription：

四五叶芦秋水里

两三个雁夕阳边

乾隆甲子冬仲之月

左田氏

Reeds with leaves in the autumn waters

Several wild geese beside the setting sun

Qianlong Jiazi Year middle winter

Zuo Tian

Jia Zi year (AW148)

5.8cm

Provenance:

Christie’s Hong Kong, 31st October 1995, lot 1808

Al & Julie Stemple Collection

Irvin Goldstein Collection

Louise & Christopher Randall Collection

£1,000-1,500

138

A FAMILLE-ROSE ENAMELLED ‘PEONY AND POMEGRANATES’ WHITE OPAQUE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

THREE-CHARACTER IRON-RED GUYUE XUAN MARK, 1820-1860

Of squat cylindrical shouldered form, painted with peony and pomegranates (AW149)

5.6cm

Provenance:

Purchased by Clare Lawrence, Christie’s Hong Kong, 31st October 1995, lot 1858

Emily Byrne Curtis Collection

Chris & Louisa Randall Collection

£2,000-3,000

139

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘MONKEY AND HORSE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL FOUR-CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK, 1820-1880

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted with a monkey sitting on rocky mound beneath a willow tree accompanied by a dappled pony, four-character mark to base (AW150)

7.8cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, November 1995

£200-300

140

A ‘CHICKEN BONE’ JADE SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1860

Of flattened shouldered rectangular form, the calcified stone predominantly mottled white, with grey and black inclusions (AW153)

5.2cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence January 1995, Monimar Collection

Jean Jacques Gaasch Collection

Dick Hardy Collection

Illustrated by Clare Lawrence, no.58

£800-1,200

141

A JAPANESE LACQUERED DOUBLE-GOURD SNUFF BOTTLE BY HASHI ICHI, SIGNED

1817-1882

The lacquered gourd of amber tone, signed in black with two-characters, silver screw-top (AW145)

3.8cm

Provenance:

Kunsthandel Klefisch, Cologne, 27th November 1995, lot 289 Moslé Collection

£200-300

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘LADY AND TIGER’ SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, RED FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG, 1821-1850

Of generous rounded form, painted to one side with a beautiful court lady, accompanied by a Tiger, the other side with a poem and inscription and three iron-red seals: 色能媚人，人人必爱之虎能食人，人人必畏之爱畏殊途，不啻雷壤是以莲瓣双钩，譬诸涨牙舞爪酥胸半露，俨然握尾昂头

Beauty can seduce people, and thus everyone is drawn to it Tigers can devour people, and thus everyone fears them

Love and fear follow different paths, like the distance between thunder and soil

With lotus-petal clasps and twin hooks, she resembles a beast baring its fangs and claws

Her chest is half-revealed, as a beast lifting its tail and raising its head (AW246)

5.8cm

Provenance: Robert Kleiner, 14th April 2000

£1,000-1,500

143

A BLUE-GLAZED AND MOULDED PORCELAIN ‘NINE LION DOGS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

JIAQING PERIOD, 1796-1820

Crisply moulded and carved, covered in a rich ‘lapiz-blue’ glaze, the neck and foot rim gilded (AW155)

6cm

Provenance:

Sotheby’s London, 6th December 1995, lot 725

£300-500

144

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE APOCRYPHAL FOUR CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK

1800 - 1880

Of shouldered cylindrical form, the neck with a blade-knop, painted with scholars in a mountainous landscape scene, the porcelain with a crackle glaze, four-character mark to base (AW156)

6.6cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 15th December 1995

£200-300

145

A WRATTAN COVERED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

The clear glass bottle of moon-flask shape, intricately overlaid and woven with a basket-weave design, falling short of the glass neck (AW158)

6cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 15th December 1995

Margaret Prescott Wise Collection Edgar and Roberta Wise Collection

£200-300

146

A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘TWELVE SCENES OF FILIAL PIETY’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1840-1880

The slender shouldered bottle with blade knop, painted with twelve panels of filial piety each with inscription, peach and butterfly mark (AW161)

8.8cm

Provenance:

Kunsthandel Klefisch, Cologne

25th November, 1995, lot 480, Moslé Collection

A similar bottle from the Emily Byrne collection was sold by Bonhams New York 21st September 2021, lot 689

£500-700

147

A CARVED BROWN DUAN STONE ‘YIN-YANG’ SNUFF BOTTLE GUANGZHOU, 1740-1820

Of tall elongated slender form, carved to one side with a Tajitu symbol flanked by opposing chilong dragons, the reverse with a ten-character inscription: 端溪育良才，温润比美玉

Duanxi nurtures fine stone; its smoothness rivals that of fine jade, below a further two characters: 御制 ‘Yu chi’, ‘by Imperial Command’, the base with a two-character carved mark, 南竹 Nanzhu, ‘Southern Bamboo’

6.4cm (AW152)

Provenance: Clare Lawrence Ltd, December 1995

Joseph Baruch silver Collection

Alexander Brody Collection

Illustrated: ‘Old wine into old bottles’, A. Brody, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 147, No.18

£1,000-1,500

148

A JASPER ‘GALAXY’ SNUFF BOTTLE IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1750-1850

Of generous circular form, each side with a raised panel, the stone with red, amber, yellow and ochre inclusions against a green ground, slightly concave inner lip and protruding flat foot (AW159) 5.4cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 15th December 1995

Margaret Prescott Wise Collection

Edgar and Roberta Wise Collection no. 266

Kleiner comments: ‘Most Jasper snuff bottles are probably made in the same workshops. They exhibit common characteristics in the care with which they are made, the slightly concave mouth, the good hollowing and the simple overall form. The form in this case is probably inspired by the shape of certain archaic bronze vessels, which had raised panels on the sides’

A similar jasper bottle, From The Collection of Mary and George Bloch, is illustrated and discussed, Treasury 2, no. 222, sold at Bonham’s Hong Kong, 27th May 2012, lot 33

£2,000-3,000

149

A BLUE AND WHITE ‘GRAND TUTOR XIE AND WEIQI BOARD’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL FOUR-CHARACTER QIANLONG MARK, 1830-1900

Of shouldered rectangular form, painted to one side with a bearded scholar, 晋太傅谢公 ‘The Grand Tutor Xie of the Jin Dynasty’ inscribed to the sides, the other side with a weiqi board, inscribed:

動以布勢靜以道知

動若有若無事太傅棋

宗社之利

別隋棋矢堂

In movement, one arranges the strategic situation; in stillness, one governs by the Dao and insight

The motion seemingly to be there, yet not, In the matter of Grand Tutor’s Weiqi

The benefit of the ancestral temple and the state.

By Biesui of the Hall of Go and Arrows

‘The Grand Tutor Xie of the Jin Dynasty’ refers to Xie An, a prominent statesman of the Eastern Jin period who held the high office of Grand Tutor (Taifu). Xie An was renowned for both his political insight and literary style (AW160)

8.5cm

Provenance:

Kunsthandel Klefisch, Cologne, 25th November 1995, lot 461

Moslé Collection

£100-200

150 A BLUE AND WHITE SOFT-PASTE PORCELAIN ‘WOMEN AND CHILDREN’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1780-1820

Of shouldered bottled form, painted with an arrangement of sixteen boys and four female attendants in an interior scene, the base unglazed, the porcelain finely crazed (AW167) 6cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 6th February 1996

£400-600

151 A FAMILLE-R0SE ENAMELLED PORCELAIN ‘FIGURE AND TIGER’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL FOUR-CHARACTER MARK OF QIANLONG

1860-1900

Of generous globular form, boldly painted with a continuous mythical scene of Shan Hai Jing, iron-red four-character mark to base (AW168)

6.5cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 6th February 1996

Nelson Collection

For another snuff bottle with the same subject see Sotheby’s New York, October 1974, lot 90

£500-700

152

A WHITE-METAL PEACH-SHAPED SNUFF BOTTLE

PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING 1723-1750

Possibly Paktong, with two chased copper leaves to the collar, screw-top cover in the form of a stalk, together with a metal pocket watch shaped snuff bottle (2) (AW163)

5.4cm overall

Provenance: David Bowden, February 1996

£800-1,200

153

A ‘ROBINS EGG’ GLAZED ‘THIRTY-TWO BATS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL FOUR-CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL

1850-1900

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted with bats in flight against a mottled robin’s egg ground (AW164)

6.5cm

Provenance:

David Bowden, 6th February 1996

£300-500

154

A FAMILLE-R0SE ENAMELLED PORCELAIN ‘FIVE MONKEYS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG, 1821-1850

Of globular form, finely painted to either side with five monkeys amongst rocks, picking peaches from a tree, four-character mark in iron-red enamel (AW165)

5cm

Provenance: David Bowden, 6th February 1996

£1,000-1,500

155

A YIXING POTTERY ENAMELLED HEXAGONAL ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1780-1850

The neck unglazed revealing the buff-coloured body, painted with pavilions in an extensive mountainous landscape (AW166)

6.2cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 19th February 1996

Christie’s Hong Kong, Part I, 14th June 1971, lot 51

The Ko Collection, no.486/3, fig. 6 illustrated by Hugh Moss, E-Yaji.com

Edward and Roberta Wise Collection

£1,000-2,000

156

AN UNUSUAL DOUBLE-GOURD METAL SNUFF BOTTLE

1780-1920

Of Copper and Paktong, the lower section chased with flowers, screw thread to detachable upper section, with original screw-top stopper (AW169)

5.5cm overall

Provenance:

Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2nd May 1996, lot 1167

Arthur Gadsby Collection

For a similar example in The Water Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles, 水松石山房鼻煙壺珍藏 see cat. no. 33.1.237

£120-180

157

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘ZODIAC’ DOUBLE SNUFF BOTTLE

1850-1911

Painted with the respective animals representing their sign of the zodiac, the recessed bases unglazed (AW170) 5cm

Provenance:

Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2nd May 1996, lot 1223

Illustrated the ICSBS Journal, Spring 1998. p.11

‘Decoding Ox/Water Buffalo’ by Ka Bo Tsang

£400-600

158

A FAMILLE-ROSE MOULDED PORCELAIN ‘LION AND CUB’ SNUFF BOTTLE

PROBABLY IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, 1796-1820

The crouching lion-dog clutching its cub, painted in enamels (AW174) 7.5cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, June 1996

Margaret Prescott Wise Collection

Illustrated in the ICSBS Journal, December 1976, p.4, ‘The sources of symbolism on Snuff Bottles’, Lynsay Hughes Cooper

For a similar example in The Water Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles, 水松石山房鼻煙壺珍藏 see cat. no. 35.1.386

£600-800

159

A CINNABAR LACQUER ‘DRAGON’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1880-1940

Of generous shouldered form, carved in high-relief with two large Imperial five-clawed dragons amongst cloud scrolls, the neck with a further five auspicious bats, matching stopper (AW175) 8.8cm overall

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 11th June 1996

£300-500

160 A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘BUTTERFLIES AND MELONS’ DOUBLE GOURD SNUFF BOTTLE

IRON-RED FOUR-CHARACTER JIAQING MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, 1796-1820

Painted in famille-rose enamels with butterflies amongst flowering vines and gourds, reserved against a turquoise ground (AW171)

8cm

Provenance:

Purchased by Clare Lawrence Ltd, Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2nd May 1996, lot 1245 Previously Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29th April 1992, lot 402, mentioned in the ICSBS Journal, Summer 1996

£2,000-3,000

161

A CLOISONNE CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL ‘SHOU CHARACTER’ SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING 1750-1820

Decorated on each side with a central red shou character flanked by pairs of blue chilong dragons within octagonal floral borders, all reserved against a gilt ground, matching stopper (AW173)

6.2cm overall

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 1996

Other similar examples may be found in The J & J Collection, Moss, Graham, Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, Vol 2. No’s. 266-267

The Marquis of Exeter’s Collection, Burghley House, CSBE30.

Another variation of this type of Imperial palace workshop champlevé bottle was sold at Christie’s New York, 13th September 2017, lot 204

£3,000-5,000

162

A BLUE AND WHITE SOFT-PASTE PORCELAIN ‘SEVENTY-THREE/EIGHTYFOUR’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL SIX-CHARACTER JIAJING MARK, 1850-1890

Finely painted with a continuous scene of a bespectacled mandarin scholar accompanied by a street merchant selling fish and five playful boys, the scenes titled: Qishisan ‘Seventy-three’, Bashisi, ‘Eighty-four’, Taoqi’er ‘Naughty Boy’ and Waimao’er, ‘Messy-haired boy’, six-character mark to the base (AW183)

6cm

Provenance:

Sotheby’s New York, 17th March 1997, lot 170

From the Collection of Gerd Lester

For a discussion of this folk saying: ‘Seventy-three, eighty-four: Yama (the King of Hell) sends no invitation but you go on your own’ on a famille-rose bottle, see A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol.6, Part 3, cat no. 1412

£200-300

163

A BLUE AND WHITE SOFT-PASTE PORCELAIN ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL FOUR-CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered cylindrical spreading form, painted with a fisherman and farmer in a pavilioned landscape, four-character mark to base (AW181)

7.5cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 10th June 1996

£200-300

164

A GREEN AND RUSSET JADE ‘MASTER OF THE ROCKS’S LANDSCAPE’ CARVED SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1820

Of flat ovoid form, with mock mask and ring handles, the brown skin carved to one side with a priest on a high terrace, accompanied by attendants amongst cloud scrolls (AW176)

6cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 12th June 1996

K. Hark Collection, (47)

£1,000-2,000

165

A CARVED YELLOWISH/GREEN JADE ‘NINE ARCHAIC BRONZES’ SNUFF BOTTLE

QIANLONG PERIOD, PROBABLY IMPERIAL, 1750-95

Of shouldered ovoid form, the stone of yellow-green tone, well carved with nine archaic bronzes, each inscribed with a corresponding title (AW177)

6.5cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 12th June 1996

K. Hark Collection

£3,000-4,000

166

A LACQUER ON PORCELAIN ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1850-1890

Of shouldered cylindrical form, carved in high-relief with a fisherman, wood-cutter and farmer engaged in their pursuits, watched upon by a scholar seated in a riverside pavilion beneath a willow tree (AW178)

7.2cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 12th June 1996

The Kardos Collection

Mr M. Carter

£300-500

167

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘INSECTS AND FLOWERS’ PEBBLESHAPED SNUFF BOTTLE

DAOGUANG PERIOD, 1820-1851

Painted with a katydid, butterfly and insect amongst sweet pea flowers and seed pods (AW180)

6cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 10th June 1996

Made in China, Porcelain Snuff Bottles from Jingdezhen

£1,000-1,500

168

A MINIATURE GOURD ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

GUANGXU, 1875-1908

The bottle-shaped gourd finely decorated with a pokerwork design of a sage traversing a mountainous landscape (AW191)

4cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, February 1997, Illustrated 1997 catalogue, no.76

Collection of Yeung Tat-Che

Literature:

Illustrated in ONE THOUSAND SNUFF BOTTLES, 29th March to 6th May 1995

EXHIBITION AT THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, PL.959

£200-300

169

AN AVENTURINE AND MULTICOLOURED SPLASHED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL GLASS WORKSHOPS, 1750-1850

Of compressed globular form, the clear glass with aventurine, blue, white, brown and pink inclusions, wide mouth and recessed oval foot (AW179)

4.2cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, 12th June 1996

For a similar shaped glass bottle see Snuff Bottles, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1995, p.63, cat. no. 98

£1,500-2,000

170

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘FIVE BATS AND FLOWERS’ SNUFF BOTTLE SHOU-CHARACTER MARK 1840-1870

Of stout shouldered form, the interior painted with the character, Nai, (probably identifying the Prinze of Naiman) the neck with five bats, the exterior with a Yongle inspired floral design, the recessed base with a shou character mark in seal script (AW192)

4.3cm

Provenance:

Sotheby’s New York, 17th March, 1997, lot 374

Illustrated Arts of Asia volume 27 No. 3 May/June 1997, page 114

For a similar bottle described as ‘The Princes bottle’ see The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles, 水松石山房鼻煙壺珍藏 cat. no. 21.3.383

£600-800

171 A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘MENG HAORAN‘ SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, RED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG, 1821-1850

Of shouldered ovoid form, painted with a scholar on a mule accompanied by an attendant holding a prunus branch, within a pavilion landscape (AW182)

5.5cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 10th June 1996

Illustrated: Snuff Bottles of China, Hugh M. Moss, London 1971, p.128-129, No.308

Meng Haoran (689-740) was a native of Xiangyang in Hubei province. He was a reclusive poet who attempted the jinshi examination when he was about 40 with a view to embarking on an official career. When he was unsuccessful he withdraw to private life, travelling widely. He is known for a fondness for going in search of prunus blossoms in the snow, although there is some question as to whether this was a later embellishment upon his intriguing and well-known life. What is certain, however, is that later depictions of him illustrate this pursuit and several later literati refer to him in their poems and inscriptions on paintings as seated on a donkey, attendant at hand, searching for prunus blossoms in the snow

£2,000-3,000

AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

MA SHAOXUAN, 1895-1900

Of shouldered rectangular form, finely painted to one side with a cricket, spiders web and dragonfly around a flowering prunus branch, the other side with an inscription and red seal of the artist:

恒山二兄大人正

静看檐珠结网低

无端妨凝小虫飞

蜻蜓倒挂蜂儿窘

催唤山童未解围

To Elder brother Hengshan

While you sat quietly watching the eaves’ dewdrops a spider wove its net low there for no reason hindering the tiny insects’ flight

A dragonfly hung upside-down a poor bee was trapped in distress

You called the mountain boy

But he had not yet managed to break the snare

Except for the title, the poem is written by Fan Chengda (1126–1193)

The original title is ‘Autumn Day, Rural Miscellany’ (AW185)

5.8cm

Provenance: Robert Kleiner, 2nd October 1996

Kleiner Comments: ‘This is a very rare subject for Ma Shaoxuan, no other appearing to have been recorded. It was obviously inspired by the works of Zhou Leyuan and Ye Zhongsan the Elder, who both painted this subject, early in the 1890’s. Ma is known to have started painting in 1894 and many of his early works were undated. Given the similarity to the works of Zhou and Ye it is likely that his bottle was painted between 1895 – 1900’ £2,000-3000

173 AN INSIDE PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE DING ERZHONG

1893-1905

Painted to one side with ducks and waterlilies, inscribed with two-characters, Erzhong, the red seal Ding, the other side with an arrangement of classical antiques amongst rockwork, including a ‘junyao’ censer (AW194)

5.8cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 27th March 1997

Clare Lawrence letter, 12th March 1997

£2,000-3,000

174

A JADE ‘WICKER WORK’ SNUFF BOTTLE

18TH CENTURY

The mushroom-coloured stone, with grey, russet and red inclusions, carved overall with a wickerwork design between rope-twist borders (AW184) 5.5cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 2nd October 1996

Sotheby’s London, 24th/25th April 1987

Lydia Torry Collection

Kleiner comments: ‘The wickerwork and rope-twist motifs are both closely associated with bottles made for Imperial use’

£800-1,200

175

A BLUE AND WHITE SOFT PASTE PORCELAIN ‘SWALLOWS AND PRUNUS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL SIX-CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK, 1800-1850

Of shouldered bottle form, painted with swallows amongst the prunus tree, reserved against a crackle-glazed ground, six-character mark to base (AW186)

7cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 3rd October 1996

The Charles C. Cox Collection, New Zealand

£200-300

176

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘LOTUS SCROLL’ SNUFF BOTTLE, 19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered cylindrical form, pained with a band of classic lotus scrolls, the neck with four bats, 6.2cm together with a modern example painted with rabbits a hen and chicks (2) (AW188 & 274)

Provenance:

The lotus scroll bottle, a gift from Clare Lawrence Ltd 1996

£100-200

177

A WHITE-GLAZED MOULDED AND RETICULATED ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’ SNUFF BOTTLE

JIAQING PERIOD, 1796-1820

Of slender shouldered tapering form, carved and moulded with a dragon and phoenix contesting flaming pearls amongst cloud scrolls (AW189)

7.5cm

Provenance: Ronald Cook, 29th January 1997

£300-500

178 A PURPLE OVERLAY AND CLEAR GLASS ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE YANGZHOU SEAL SCHOOL, 1850-1910

Of shouldered globular form, the transparent purple overlay carved with a continuous landscape scene of a boatman, the other side of a sampan moored to one side of a pavilion beneath a willow tree, ducks and a cresent moon, convex oval foot (AW172)

5.5cm

Provenance:

Christie’s London, 10th June 1996, lot 380

£400-600

179

A CORAL ‘INSECTS AND FLOWERS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1780-1860

Boldly carved with a praying mantis, butterfly and beetle amongst tree peony, prunus, magnolia and other blooms (AW187)

6cm

Provenance: Clare Lawrence Ltd, 9th October 1996

The Crane Collection, U.S.A.

£400-600

180

A POLYCHROME PORCELAIN ‘EIGHT BARBARIANS PRESENTING TREASURES’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL SIX-CHARACTER QIANLONG MARK

1840-1870

The slender shouldered bottle painted in underglaze-blue and polychrome enamels, the foreigners holding various treasures accompanied by an elephant and lion dogs (AW193)

8.7cm

Provenance:

Sotheby’s New York, 17th March 1997, lot 433

£600-800

181

A WHITE-GLAZED PORCELAIN MOULDED AND RETICULATED ‘LEGEND OF THE WHITE SNAKE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

MID 19TH CENTURY

Of generous shouldered form, crisply moulded and carved displaying a continuous figural scene (AW196)

7.5cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 2th March 1997

AW- ‘From an American Collection formed 1903-1950 and now after years in boxes has come into the hands of Clare Lawrence’

£300-500

182

A HORNBILL DOUBLE-GOURD SNUFF BOTTLE

20TH CENTURY

Finely carved as a cluster of gourds, with pierced leafy tendrils, the design highlighted by the natural red colour of the horn, matching stopper (AW197)

6.5cm overall

Provenance:

David Bowden 5th May 1997

Sotheby’s London, 5th May 1997, lot 165

Cai-Shi Xuan Collection

£300-500

183

A CLOISONNÉ ‘BUTTERFLY’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1800-1900

Of shouldered ovoid form, decorated with butterflies and flowers on a turquoise ground (AW199)

5.2cm

Provenance:

David Bowden, 5th May 1997

For a similar cloisonné bottle, dated 1800-1900, see Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Edward Choate O’dell Collection, Asia House gallery, New York, no. 88

£300-400

184

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘CALIGRAPHY’ SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, 1820-1860

Of shouldered ovoid form, finely painted with an imperial ‘tea poem’ composed by the Qianlong emperor dated 1746 written in Kaishu script with two mock seals of the emperor, enclosed by two ruyi-head borders (AW190) 6cm

Provenance:

Sotheby’s New York, 17th September, 1996, lot 239

From the Collection of Gerd Lester

Robert Kleiner catalogue 1997, no.2

£2,000-3,000

185 A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘MAGPIE’ SNUFF BOTTLE IRON-RED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK RONGRUI TANG ZHI 1820-1850

Of stout shouldered form with moulded mask and ring handles in iron-red and gilt, painted overall with a flock of magpies (AW198) 6.2cm

Provenance: David Bowden 5th May 1997

£2,000-3,000

186

A FAMILLE-ROSE AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, 1780-1820

Of slender shouldered form, well painted with figures on a terrace beneath a pine tree, a scholar and lady on a terrace to the other side, all within underglaze-blue and gilt borders around the neck and shoulders (AW200)

5.5cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 15th June 1997. 1997 Catalogue no: 44

Alex S. Cussons (1914-1986) Collection, Sotheby’s New York, 3rd May 1995

For similar bottles of this type see Chinese Snuff Bottles, in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Robert Kleiner, British Museum, 1995, nos. 194 – 196

£3,000-4,000

187

A CARVED YELLOW SERPENTINE ‘CHILONG DRAGON’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1820

Of shouldered cylindrical form, carved around the body with two chilong dragons chasing a flaming pearl (AW202)

5.3cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 16th June 1997

Sotheby’s Hong Kong, April 1993, lot 528

Alexander Brody Collection

£800-1,200

188

A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘SCHOLAR AND PEACH TREE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL CHENGHUA MARK

1820-1880

Of shouldered spreading cylindrical form, painted with a scholar beneath a peach tree on a rocky landscape, four-character Chenghua mark to base (AW203)

7.6cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 16th June 1997

£200-300

189

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘ROOSTER’ SNUFF BOTTLE

FOUR CHARACTER HALL MARK IN RED, ‘SHENDE TANG ZHI’ 1821-1850

Of tapering cylindrical shouldered form, finely painted with five cockerels (AW204)

7.5cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, 17th June 1997

Shendetang is a hall mark associated with a range of fine porcelains made for the Hall for the Cultivation of Virtue, a summer residence of the Daoguang Emperor

£1,500-2,000

190 A FAMILLE-R0SE ENAMELLED PORCELAIN ‘FLORAL’ DOUBLE SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL FOUR-CHARACTER QIANLONG MARK, LATE QING/ REPUBLIC

Modelled in the form of a pair of con-joined moon flasks, painted with a formalised arrangement of flowers against a lime-green ground, four-character seal marks in iron-red, within gilt rims (AW205)

4.8cm

Provenance: Clare Lawrence Ltd, 19th June 1997

£400-600

191

A FAMILLE-ROSE ENAMELLED ‘GOLDEN PHEASANT’ WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE BEIJING PALACE WORKSHOPS, BLACK FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG, 1736-1750

Of small globular shouldered form, well painted with a golden pheasant on a rocky mound to one side, the other with a hen beneath a full-blown peony, a petal-leafed border around the neck (AW201)

3.8cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner 15th June 1997

Illustrated 1997 catalogue, no.67

£8,000-12,000

192

A WHITE CRACKLE-GLAZED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

DAOGUANG PERIOD, 1821-1850

Of cylindrical shouldered form, covered with a two-tone crackle glaze (AW206)

6.5cm

Provenance:

Sotheby’s New York, 25th October 1997, lot 296

Gerry P. Mack Collection

£200-300

193

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘CRABS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

SIX-CHARACTER HALL MARK, ‘ELEGANTLY MADE BY THE STUDIO OF VIRTUE’ 19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered baluster form, painted with two crabs amongst aquatic fronds, six-character mark to base (AW207)

6.3cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 20th December 1997

Exhibited ‘twenty-five eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing period’, 25th Annual Convention of the ICSBS, New York, October 1993

£800-1,000

194

A ‘SANG-DE-BOEUF’ GLAZED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

1800-1900

Of elegant shouldered baluster form, the rich ‘strawberry smoothy’ coloured glaze falling short of the neck and foot, revealing the white porcelain body (AW208)

7cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 1997. ‘From her own private Collection’ £300-400

195

A ‘TEA-DUST’ MONOCHROME PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Of cylindrical shouldered tapering form, covered in a ‘bronzed’ mottled glaze, the unglazed-base with incised concentric circles (AW209)

6.4cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 1997. ‘From her own private Collection’ £200-300

196

A ‘BRONZED’ MONOCHROME PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of cylindrical shouldered slender form, the mottled glaze with tones of amber, green and grey (AW210) 7.3cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 1997. ‘From her own private Collection’

£200-300

197

A ‘TEA-DUST’ GLAZED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG 1821-1850

Of generous shouldered globular form, covered in a rich ‘tea-dust’ glaze thinning at the neck, the base incised with a four-character mark in brown (AW211) 6cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 1997. ‘From her own private Collection’

£1,500-2,500

198

AN AMBER-GLAZED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered baluster form, the amber-coloured glaze darkening to black around the neck and foot rim skilfully accentuating the shape, the unglazed-concave base with concentric circles (AW212) 6.5cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, December 1997. ‘From her own private Collection’

£300-500

199

A SANG-DE-BOEUF GLAZED PORCELAIN OCTAGONAL SNUFF BOTTLE

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Of fluted baluster form tapering to a slender recessed foot, the glaze thining on the ribs to highlight the elegant shape (AW213) 8cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, December 1997. ‘From her own private Collection’ Gerd Lester Collection

£300-500

200

A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘SCHOLARS AND POEM’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1840-1880

Of slender elongated tapering form, painted in three colours with Tao Jen and his chrysanthemums which are picked out in grey with blue calligraphy and seals, all within copper red borders (AW215)

8.5cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 13th February 1998. cat. no. 34

£300-500

201

AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘SCHOLAR AND BOATMEN’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL YONGZHENG MARK

1800-1850

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted with a continuous landscape scene, with a seven-character inscription, six-character mark to base, applied collectors paper labels (AW216)

7.8cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 10th February 1998. cat. no. 54

Myron S. Falk Collection

£200-300

202

A CARVED CAMEO AGATE ‘LION-DOG AND BAT’ CIGARETTE LIGHTER

19TH CENTURY

Converted from a snuff bottle, the gilt-metal mount chased with flowers, sea-horses and fish (AW218)

8.2cm overall

Provenance: Gallerie Zacke, Vienna, May 1998

£200-300

203

A CARVED CAMEO AGATE ‘ROOSTER AND BUTTERFLY’ CIGARETTE LIGHTER

19TH CENTURY

Converted from a snuff bottle, the gilt-metal mount to the neck incised MAQUET (AW219)

8.2cm overall

Provenance:

Gallerie Zacke, Vienna, May 1998

£200-300

204

A ‘REALGAR’ GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 18TH CENTURY

Of generous shouldered ovoid form, the glass with rich crimson, amber and green striations, flat oval foot (AW217)

5.8cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 28th February 1998

Illustrated 1998 catalogue, cat. no. 88

Phillip Allen Collection

Kleiner comments: ‘The green bands combine dramatically with the rich crimson undertone. Green is a rare colour in this type of glass bottle’

Exhibited:

The London Convention of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society in the collection of British collectors, 5th-9th October 1999, cat. no. 59

£800-1,200

205

A FAMILLE-R0SE CARVED AND MOULDED ‘PORCELAIN PRODUCTION’

PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL RED FOUR-CHARACTER QIANLONG MARK, MID 19TH CENTURY

Finely carved and moulded, with a continuous landscape scene (AW220)

6.7cm

Provenance:

Sotheby’s London, 17th June 1998, lot 1601

£1,000-1,500

206

A ‘THUMB PRINT’ AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1860

Of tapering ovoid form, the stone with striking inclusions with tones of amber to the centre of the ‘thumbprint’ (AW223)

4.2cm

Provenance: Sotheby’s London, 17th June 1998, lot 168

AW - ‘I think I got this so easily as it was unillustrated’

£600-800

207

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘DRAGON’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL SIX-CHARACTER KANGXI MARK 19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted with a five-clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl amongst cloud scrolls, over a wave strewn base, six-character mark to base (AW224)

6.7cm

Provenance: Robert Kleiner, 18th June 1998. cat. no. 52

£300-500

208 A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘LOTUS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL SIX-CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK

1810-1860

Of shouldered ovoid form, painted with an arrangement of twelve lotus flowers within scrollwork, six-character mark to base (AW225)

6.6cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 18th June 1998

£200-300

209 A CARVED TURQUOISE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1730-1850

Of globular form with carved mock mask and ring handles, the opaque turquoise glass with visible striations, recessed oval foot (AW235)

4.8cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 3rd March 1999

£600-800

210 A BROWN STONEWARE ENAMELLED ‘BAMBOO, BIRDS AND POEM’ SNUFF BOTTLE

BEIJING, 1800-1821

Painted to one side with swallows and bamboo, in white and green enamel, with a seven-character inscription:

许禹文Xu Yuwen (name）雨燕Swift (the bird) the reverse with an archaistic twenty-two character inscription in green and white, impressed mark to base, ‘Jun de’ (a virtuous and talented person) (AW228)

7.4cm

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd, 19th June 1998

The enamelling attributed to Xiao San, near Beijing (1800-1821)

The Ko Collection no. 125/P

£400-600

211

AN INSIDE PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

CHEN ZHONGSAN, SIGNED & DATED WUWU YEAR, 1918

Of flattened shouldered ovoid form, finely painted with a young man and a dappled grey pony to one side, beneath a willow tree, the other side with an elderly farmer with a workhorse, inscribed in black and red seal of the artist:

少棠仁兄

大人淘玩弟

文亭号

戊午

陈仲三作

For my esteemed elder brother Shaotang, from your junior brother in collecting and connoisseurship styled Wenting, Made in the Wuwu year by Chen Zhongsan (AW226)

6.2cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 18th July 1998

£1,500-2,000

212

AN INSIDE PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

ZHOU LEYUAN, DATED 1892

Of shouldered rectangular form, finely painted to one side with a crane beneath a willow tree, in inky tones of grey, the other side with a solitary boatman battling the elements in a bleak mountainous landscape, eleven-character inscription:

壬辰

秋日写于京师

周乐元

In the Renchen year Written in autumn in the capital by Zhou Leyuan (AW222)

6.1cm

Provenance:

Sotheby’s London 17th June 1998, lot 1668

Illustrated and recorded on E-Yaji.com Zhou Leyuan Essay, in chronological order, 1892 SL 18 June 98 (1668)

£800-1,000

213

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘KATYDID’ SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, RED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD OF DAOGUANG, 1821-1850

Of shouldered form, painted to one side with a katydid entering a gourd-shaped trap, the other side with the insect caged, their eyes highlighted in gilding (AW233)

5.5cm

Provenance:

Purchased by Clare Lawrence Ltd, Sotheby’s New York, 15th September 1998, lot 183

Collection of Neal W. & Frances R. Hunter

Collection of Georgia E. Roode

Collection of Judy Johnson

Collection of Dorothea Esty

£2,000-3,000

214

A FAMILLE-ROSE AND MOULDED PORCELAIN

‘DOUBLE-GOURD’ SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, IRON-RED FOUR CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG, 1736-1795

Depicting eight yellow and red double gourds hanging from a flowering vine, with five iron-red bats in flight (AW234)

8.2cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 3rd March 1999

H. S. Dadley Collection (Auckland)

Gifted to Auckland War Memorial Museum

Gifted to A. V. Hay (Mr and Mrs. Hadley’s niece)

Further gifted to her niece, Mary De Lisle (nee Hay)

An identical mark and period double-gourd bottle was sold at Christie’s New York 13th September 2017, lot 288, from the Ruth & Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles; Part V

£8,000-12,000

215

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘TILLING AND WEAVING’ ‘GENGZHI TU’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL SIX-CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK

1830-1880

The slender shouldered bottle painted with a lady working a loom, a man and ox attending a paddy field, the porcelain finely crazed (AW236)

8.6cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 3rd March 1999

The Kangxi edition of the Gengzhi Tu (Pictures of Tilling and Weaving) is a 1696 compilation of 46 woodblock prints, commissioned by the Kangxi Emperor, that illustrate the agricultural and silk-production processes. Created by court painter Jiao Bingzhen

£400-600

216

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘COURT LADIES’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL OVERGLAZE-BLUE ENAMELLED QIANLONG MARK

1880-1940

Painted with a lady accompanied by a boy to one side, inscribed ‘On opening the doors (I behold) how pretty the maiden is’ and the other side with a maiden looking into a mirror, inscribed ‘Enjoying the children every day (is also) a blissful way of life’, each raised circular panel within a band of classic lotus scrolls to the shoulder (AW237)

6cm

Provenance:

Jim Railton Auctioneer, Chillingham Castle sale, Holy Island, Northumberland, 20th March 1999, lot 396

Captain Bowden Collection

A similar finely painted porcelain snuff bottle was sold at Christie’s New York, 17th September 2008, lot 61

£800-1,000

217

A FAMILLE-ROSE ENAMELLED ‘LINGZHI, PINE AND CRANES’ WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

YANGZHOU, APOCRYPHAL IRON-RED FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK OF QIANLONG, 1850-1910

Of slender shouldered cylindrical form, painted with two cranes beneath a pine tree, with wisteria growing in the canopy, all issuing from a rocky outcrop with sprigs of lingzhi fungus (AW238) 6.8cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner June 1999

Sotheby’s New York, 22nd March 1999, lot 99

Collection of Neil W. and Frances R. Hunter

For a similar example in The Water Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles, 水松石山房鼻煙壺珍藏 see cat. no. 21.3.723, depicting goats with a similar floral border to the neck. Illustrated, discussed and re-dated by Hugh Moss and Stuart H. Sargent, The Yangzhou Conundrum, August 2018

£2,000-3,000

218

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN SOFT PASTE ‘THREE FRIENDS OF WINTER’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1800-1860

Of shouldered cylindrical form, with three moulded ‘bamboo bands’, painted with pine tree, prunus and bamboo, reserved against a crackle glazed ground (AW239)

6.6cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 20 June 1999

Gerry P. Mack Collection, Sotheby’s New York, 25th October, 1997, lot 300

£200-300

219

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘BAJIXIANG’ ‘TWELVE BUDDHIST EMBLEMS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1800-1870

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted with the twelve Buddhist emblems within stiff leaved borders on a crackled porcelain ground (AW241)

6cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, June 1999

£200-300

220

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘BOYS AT PLAY’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL SIX-CHARACTER KANGXI MARK

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted in underglaze-blue with sixteen boys at play, the shoulder with prunus blossom on a ‘cracked-ice’ ground, six character mark to the base (AW242)

7.6cm

Provenance:

Victor Topper, 8th October 1999, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Convention, London

£300-500

221

A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘FISHERMAN’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1820-1860

Of cylindrical form with a waisted neck, decorated with a solitary fisherman on a stream in autumn, the foot painted with an underglaze-red dragon and a four-character inscription in regular script, Qingyang Daoren in underglaze-blue (AW254)

5cm

Provenance:

Christie’s New York, Blanche B. Exstein sale, 21st March 2002, lot 62 For another similar bottle see The Water, Pine Stone Collection of Snuff Bottles, 水松石山房鼻煙壺珍藏 cat. no.21.3.676

£400-600

222

A FAMILLE-ROSE ENAMELLED ‘NINE QUAIL’ WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

WANG XISAN, BEIJING, 1964

Of shouldered ovoid form, finely painted with nine quail amongst peony and rockwork, the neck with a floral border, the recessed foot with an apocryphal four-character blue seal mark of Qianlong (AW240)

5.6cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 10th June 1996. AW- ‘Confirmed by email message from Wang Xisan as being made by him in 1964’

£3,000-5,000

223

AN INSIDE PAINTED GLASS ‘CAT AND INSECT’ SNUFF BOTTLE

YAN YUTIAN, 1895-1903

Painted to one side with a cat and insect, the other side with an arrangement of prunus blossom amongst classical antiques, twocharacter inscription and seal of the artist (AW243)

6cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 5th October 1999

Kleiner comments: ‘Cats are a very rare subject on inside-painted snuff bottles of the Beijing school of 1880-1910 and this appears to be the only recorded example by Yan Yutian, one of the most highly regarded artists of the period (See ‘Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect’ No. 236 for this subject by Zhou Leyuan, from 1892’

£800-1,000

224

A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELLED ‘NINE CHICKS’ WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

YANGZHOU, GUYE XUAN MARK, 1850 - 1910

Of flattened shouldered rectangular form, painted with nine chicks scratching around a rocky mound issuing flowers, iron-red three-character mark to the foot (AW244) 7cm

Provenance:

Purchased by Robert Kleiner’ Christie’s New York, 21st March 2000, lot 59 Rachelle R. Holden Collection, Sotheby’s New York, 26th November 1991, lot 83

Literature: ICSBS Journal, Autumn, 1993, p.20. fig.4 Rachelle R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far from the World, Hong Kong, 1994, pp.98-99 no. 36

£1,000-2,000

225

A CARVED AND PALE YELLOW-GLAZED PORCELAIN ‘FISHERMAN AND CRANE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

JINGDEZHEN KILNS, SCHOOL OF WANG BINGRONG

1850-1880

Of slender pear shape, carved with a panel to one side with a crane perched in a pine tree, enclosed within the design an impressed twocharacter seal, ‘Nanshan, Southern Mountain’, the other side with two figures in a sampan navigating a rocky gorge (AW154) 6.8cm

Provenance: Robert Kleiner, 8th November 1995

£600-800

226

A BLUE ON WHITE OVERLAY GLASS ‘BOY ON BUFFALO’ SNUFF BOTTLE

YANGZHOU, DATED 1882

The blue overlay carved with a boy on a buffalo holding aloft a stick, the other side a dog chasing a rabbit, beneath a bird, four-character Inscription: ‘made in the autumn of the Bingwu Year’ and a seal which reads ‘Zhengde’, on a convex oval foot (AW245)

5cm

Provenance: Robert Hall, 14th April 2000

Michael Ward Collection. AW- ‘Wards parents collected in far east in 50’s’

£1,500-2,000

227

AN AMBER ‘ELEPHANT AND LION DOG’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1740-1830

Of globular form, carved in light-relief with an elephant with a vase containing lotus and coral on its back, and two lion-dogs to the other side (AW251) 5.5cm

Provenance: Robert Hall, 21st February 2002

Hall comments: ‘This is a wonderful bottle to hold. The bulbous shape feels good to touch and it has obviously been well handled with the carving being smoothed down. Amber is a delicate material, so many bottles do not survive in good condition. This example is an exception’

£2,000-3,000

228 A CARVED CELADON JADE ‘CRICKET, CAT AND BUTTERFLY’ SNUFF BOTTLE 1780-1850

Of flattened form, the stone with ‘snowflake’ inclusions, carved to one side with a large cricket munching pakchoi, the other side with a cat and butterfly 5cm

Provenance: Robert Kleiner box, labelled ‘Teds jade cat & grasshopper’

£1,000-2,000

229

A SLENDER CELADON JADE ‘BOATMAN AND BAI SHI SEAL’ SNUFF BOTTLE 1720-1850

Of flattened shield shape, incised to one side with an Immortal in a raft beneath a tree, on choppy water, the other side with six seals, all gilded, they read as follows:

Top left to right:

Square seal, mo lin ‘Ink Groves’

Rectangular seal, he ru ‘How Incomparable’ Prunus seal, xiang si ‘Mutual passion’

Bottom left to right:

Square seal, bai shi gourd seal, ri yue ‘Bright Sun’ leaf seal, pian yue ‘A sliver of Moon’ (AW248)

6cm

Provenance: Robert Kleiner, 20th June 2000

£2,000-3,000

230

A WHITE-GLAZED AND ‘ANHUA’ DECORATED PORCELAIN ‘FIVE BATS, WUFU’ SNUFF BOTTLE

JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1800-1860

Of tall cylindrical form with a blade-knopped neck, finely incised with a design of five bats, their eyes highlighted in underglaze-blue, unglazed concentric circle to the base (AW249)

9.4cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, June 2000

£1,000-1,500

231

A CARVED BISCUIT PORCELAIN ‘INSECT AND LOTUS LEAF’ SNUFF BOTTLE 1840-1900

Modelled in high-relief as a curled lotus leaf, stalk and buds, with a beetle resting to one side (AW250) 8cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 20th February 2002

Wald Collection

Kleiner comments: ‘Although this mould is quite well known, it is usually covered in coloured enamels. This is the only recorded example of an unglazed version, and the details are consequently much clearer’

£400-600

232

A CARVED YELLOW AND RUSSET JADE SNUFF BOTTLE

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Carved with two quail amongst lotus flowers and rockwork (AW252) 5.5cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 21st February 2002

Charles C. Cox Collection, New Zealand

£1,000-1,500

233

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘FIVE MONKEYS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL SIX-CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered cylindrical form, well painted with five monkeys in a mountainous landscape, six-character mark to base (AW253) 7cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 21st February 2002

£400-600

234

AN OPAQUE GLASS ‘CALLIGRAPHY’ SNUFF BOTTLE

DATED 1877

The whitish glass simulating jade, of shouldered panelled form, decorated to either side with a red inscription

雁外寒如许

鸥边谈不妨

钟声疑隐约

渔火辨微茫

Away from home, the cold is deep and still Besides the water, quiet talk disturbs nothing

A bell tolls, faint and indistinct

Fishing lights shimmer, barely discernible

丁丑

Dingchou, 1877

写影平江碧

临流暮霭苍

有人归棹晚

诗思记沧浪

Reflections show the calmness of the jade-green river

Facing the stream, dusk mists turn to grey Someone rows home late upon the tide

A poetic thought recalls the waves

湛和月

Qing Heyue

(AW247)

6.4cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, Olympia, June 2000

Kleiner comments: ‘This bottle is decorated in what appears to be a unique technique whereby the protective glass outer surface has been annealed to the inner surface allowing the inscription to be seen. The shape is typical of the 19th century and white glass bottles of this opacity have been recorded with a Tongzhi mark (1862-1874)‘

£600-800

235 A CLOISONNÉ ‘ANTIQUES’ SNUFF BOTTLE

SOUTHERN, QIANLONG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, CIRCA 1760-1799

Probably sourced through the Jiujiang customs office near Jingdezhen, of rectangular shouldered form, decorated with two panels of classical antiques suited for the scholar’s table, against a lotus ground, engraved four-character mark to a recessed heavily gilded base, Qianlong nian zhi, (‘Made during the Qianlong period’) matching stopper 7cm overall

For a discussion on the re-attribution of this type see The Cloisonné Conundrum, Hugh Moss, fig.26, The Marakovic Collection. (I.103) and another from the author’s own collection, fig.21.

For another similar example see The Water Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles, 水松石山房鼻煙壺珍藏 see cat. no. 24.2.197, published ICSBS Journal Autumn 2023

£1,000-2,000

236

AN IRON-RED DECORATED ‘SHOU CHARACTER’

PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, IRON-RED FOUR-CHARACTER QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, 1750-1795

Of flattened shouldered form, painted to either side with an arrangement of fifty shou characters within a recessed panelled border, the shoulders with floral pendants, highlighted in gilding 5cm

For a similar example see An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, June 1970, Hugh Moss, p.72 cat. no. 296

£3,000-4,000

237

A FAMILLE-VERTE AND CARVED PORCELAIN ‘PORCELAIN PRODUCTION’ SNUFF BOTTLE JINGDEZHEN, 1815-1880

The design taken from a woodblock print in the Jingdezhen taolu 景德鎮陶錄 (Pottery Record of Jingdezhen) by Lan Pu 藍浦 (d. 1795), published in 1815, the bottle in the form of a rolled book, painted with a scene with a workman carrying clay towards a waterwheel in a mountainous landscape, the reverse with a page inscribed in black, the recessed base, carved with the edge of the pages (AW255)

7.5cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 14th April 2002

John Ault Collection

Illustrated: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of John Ault, by Robert W. L. Kleiner, 1990, no. 152

Exhibited:

Hong Kong 香港 and Xianggang Zhongguo biyanhu shoucang xuehui 香港中國鼻煙壺學會 (1977), Zhongguo biyanhu 中國鼻煙壺 [Chinese Snuff Bottles: Hong Kong Museum of Art 15 Oct.–26 Nov. 1977 ] (Hong Kong: Urban Council). Cat no. 114

Literature: Illustrated ICSBS, Journal, Autumn 1990, p. 6. fig. 26

ICSBS Journal, Spring 1990, p.27 figs 3 & 4

ICSBS Journal, Autumn 1990, p.26-27

For a similar example in The Water Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles, 水松石山房鼻煙壺珍藏, see cat. no. 21.3.1850

£2,000-3,000

238

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘PORCELAIN PRODUCTION’ SNUFF BOTTLE JINGDEZHEN, 1815-1880

The design taken from a woodblock print in the Jingdezhen taolu 景德鎮陶錄 (Pottery Record of Jingdezhen) by Lan Pu 藍浦 (d. 1795), published in 1815, the bottle in the form of a rolled book, painted with a scene with a potter sitting at a wheel throwing wares, the reverse with a page inscribed in black regular script describing the process, the recessed base, carved with the edge of the pages 7.6cm

For a similar example in The Water Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles, 水松石山房鼻煙壺珍藏, see cat. no. 21.3.1011. Another similar from the Bloch Collection, was sold at Bonham’s, Hong Kong, 25 May 2011, lot 113. Another bottle of identical subject and of the same colour scheme is in ICSBS, Journal, Spring 1990, p. 27, figs 3 and 4

£2,000-3,000

239

A RED OVERLAY ON WHITE GLASS ‘LOTUS AND HERONS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1800-1860

Of slender elongated form, the red overlay finely carved with a continuous scene of long flowering lotus stems and herons amongst them, on a wave strewn ground, oval recessed foot (AW256)

7cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 6th March 2003

For a similar carved bottle illustrated by Robert W.I. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of John Ault, Hong Kong, 1990, p.22, cat. no. 32

£800-1,200

240

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘LOTUS SCROLL’ SNUFF BOTTLE FISHERMAN MARK TO BASE

1800-1850

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted with twelve classic lotus flowers, the base with a fisherman mark beneath a pine tree (AW257)

6.2cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 6th March 2003

Christie’s London, 4th October 1999, lot 24

Gerry P. Mack Collection

£300-400

241

A GUANGZHOU ENAMEL ‘LOTUS’ SNUFF BOTTLE QIANLONG PERIOD, 1736-1795

Of elongated slender form, painted in black with lotus flowers highlighted in gilding, on a pale pink ground (AW258) 6.4cm

Provenance: Robert Hall, 17th June 2003

£400-600

242

A MOSS AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1850

Of shouldered rectangular form with mock mask and ring handles, the stone of dentritic agate with mottled inclusions including purple, lavender, amber and green cloud swirls (AW259)

5.6cm

Provenance: Robert Hall, 17th June 2003

£800-1,000

243

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘ZHANG LIANG AND THE SAGE’ SNUFF BOTTLE IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD OF DAOGUANG 1821-1850

Of shouldered rectangular form, with large iron-red mock handles, painted to one side with a seated sage with a young man, the other side with a pavilion in a landscape, inscribed with poem and seals: 夜半桥边呼孺子人间犹有未烧书 (AW260)

At midnight by the bridge, he calls out to the young man In this world, some books are yet unburned

5.8cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, 7th June 2004

Pierre Bergé & Associés, Drouot Richelieu, 25th May 2004, lot 86

A similar bottle illustrated by Moss, Graham and Tsang, Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, p.396, cat. no. 215 This sentence is from Chen Gongyin, ‘Reading the Chronicle of Qin’ (陈恭尹《读秦纪》) Chen Gongyin was a prominent poet of the early Qing dynasty. His poetry is especially noted for its historical reflections. This particular poem expresses his response after reading Sima Qian’s ‘Basic Annals of the First Emperor of Qin’ in the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji). In essence, it is a historical poem. Focusing specifically on the episode of the book burning under Qin Shihuang, the poem conveys the poet’s personal reflections and emotional response to this historical event

The young man who he is referring to is Zhang Liang of the Western Han dynasty. According to Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji, ‘The Marquis of Liu’ chapter), when Zhang Liang was still young, he encountered a strange old man—said to be a transformed yellow rock—on a bridge in Xiapi. One night, this old man gave him a copy of Taigong’s Art of War. Zhang Liang studied it diligently, and later, he did indeed assist Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han dynasty, in overthrowing the Qin dynasty. The undestroyed book suggests that the Qin dynasty failed to eliminate public dissent through good governance and instead tried to suppress criticism by burning books. The outcome, however, was that not only did this fail to silence the people—it intensified their resistance, ultimately leading to the dynasty’s complete downfall

£2,000-3,000

244

A FAMILLE-ROSE ‘LEGEND OF THE WHITE SNAKE’ MOULDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL RED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK OF QIANLONG, 1830-1870

Moulded and carved with a continuous figural scene to both sides, highlighted in famille-rose enamels

7.3cm

For discussion of a similar bottle see The Collectors Book of Snuff Bottles by Bob C. Stevens, New York, 1976 pages 92-93 cat no. 261

£400-600

245

A FAMILLE-ROSE ‘FIGURAL’ PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted with three figures making an offering beneath a gnarled tree 8cm

£200-300

246

THREE GLASS BOTTLES MODERN

To include: a glass bottle simulating cloud agate, a red-overlay inside painted bottle, and a white opaque double-gourd bottle

Tallest 9cm (3)

£100-200

PART ILLUSTRATED

247

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘BOYS AT PLAY’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL SIX-CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK

1860-1900

Of shouldered cylindrical spreading form, painted with sixteen boys at play, six-character mark to base (AW86) 7.3cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, June 1992, Grosvenor House Antiques Fair

£200-300

248

A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN ‘ZHONG KUI’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1850-1880

Of shouldered tapering cylindrical form pained with Zhong Kui the demon queller, accompanied by a bat and small demon (AW10) 7.5cm

Provenance: Hugh Moss, July 1970

Illustrated:

An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, June 1970, catalogue, p. 78, cat. no.322

£600-800

249

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘TIGER, PHOENIX AND DRAGON’ SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted with a five clawed dragon appearing from a cloud confronting a tiger, a phoenix and a naked man watching (AW 265)

7.4cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner 5th November 2005

John Ault Collection

£500-700

250

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘DRAGONS AND PEARL’ SNUFF BOTTLE

FOUR CHARACTER XIAFENG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, 1851-1861

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted with two dragons contesting a flaming pearl, four-character mark to base (AW270)

7.2cm

Provenance:

Christie’s New York, Meriem Collection, 19th March 2008, lot 231

£300-400

251 AN INSIDE PAINTED ‘DRAGONFLIES AND GOLDFISH’ ROCK-CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE

YE ZHONGSAN, BEIJING, DATED 1902

Of flattened shouldered rectangular form, finely painted with a katydid, dragonflies, praying mantis above a shady rocky pond, with a shoal of minnows, eleven-character inscription in black:

叶仲三

Ye Zhong San

壬寅

Renyin Year

杏月写于京师

written in the month of the apricot flower (February) in the capital city with red seal of the artist

5.5cm

£1,500-2,500

252

A LAPIZ LAZULI SNUFF BOTTLE AND STOPPER

POSSIBLY IMPERIAL, 1730-1840

Of generous full-bodied shouldered form, the stone with caramel striations (AW262) 6cm

Provenance: Robert Kleiner, April 2005

Avrina Pugh Collection, Sotheby’s New York, 31st March 2005, lot 474

£2,000-3,000

253

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘FIGURES IN LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL RED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK OF QIANLONG, 1820-1860

Of flattened pear shape, painted with a continuous landscape with a soldier on horseback chasing a lady with an attendant pushing a hand cart shedding water, cloud scrolls issuing from their heads (AW263) 6.2cm

Provenance:

Purchased by Robert Kleiner, Christie’s New York, 20th September 2005, lot 423

£1,000-2,000

254

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘IMMORTAL LAN CAIHE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1800-1850

The heterogeneous immortal dressed as a young woman, carrying a hoe and basket of lingzhi fungus, accompanied by two cranes (AW268) 7.2cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 26th November 2007

Illustrated ‘a must have accessory’ Chinese Snuff Bottles from our Autumn Collection, XII, cat no. 8

£300-500

255

A LARGE CAMEO AGATE ‘BANNERMAN’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1850

Of stout shouldered rectangular form, carved to one side with a soldier riding a camel, a bird inflight above (AW280) 6cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 10th January 2010

£800-1,200

256

A CARNELIAN SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

The stone with red, amber, translucent and opaque inclusions (AW69)

4.7cm

Provenance:

Sotheby’s London, 6th March 1979, lot 157 Collection of Mrs C. G. Baxter

£200-300

257

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘JOY UP TO ONE’S EYEBROWS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, IRON-RED FOUR-CHARACTER DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, 1821-1850

Of shouldered globular form, painted to either side with six magpies amongst prunus, issuing from rockwork, highlighted in gilding (AW264)

5.5cm

Provenance:

Letter from Robert Kleiner, 11th July 2005

John Ault Collection, Part II

£2,000-3,000

258

A ROOT AMBER ‘PHOENIX’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1780-1850

Of globular shouldered form, carved in light-relief with a phoenix and peony to one side, the other side with birds in a pine tree with lingzhi fungus below (AW267) 6cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner 25th May 2006

Albermarle Collection Part II, catalogue no. 73

Sigurd Larsen Collection

Lilla S. Perry Collection

Neil W. & Frances R. Hunter, 1966, Sotheby’s New York, 15th September 1998, lot 187

Exhibited:

Meridian International Centre, Washington D.C, November 2000, catalogue no. 127

Literature: Bob C. Stevens, THE COLLECTOR’S BOOK OF SNUFF BOTTLES, New York, 1976, cat. no. 714

£2,000-3,000

259

A CLOISONNE ‘DRAGON’ SNUFF BOTTLE

EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Of flattened shield shape, decorated to either side with a dragon chasing a flaming pearl, reserved against a turquoise ground, matching stopper (AW13)

5.2cm Overall

Provenance:

C. Barrett, London, December 1970

£200-300

260

A CLOISONNE SNUFF BOTTLE

APOCRYPHAL INCISED QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK

EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Of shouldered ovoid form, decorated to either side with a leaf-shaped panel enclosing gui dragons, on a dark blue diaper ground, matching stopper (AW12)

5.2cm Overall

Provenance:

C. Barrett, London, December 1970

£200-300

261

A BLACK AND WHITE OVERLAY ‘PIG AND CROW’ GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

19TH CENTURY

Carved to each side with a pig, crow and butterfly 6.5cm

£400-600

262

AN AMBER-SPLASHED OPALESECENT GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1720-1840

Of shouldered ovoid form, the greyish swirling bubble glass with bright orange and amber volcanic like sandwiched inclusions, wide mouth, convex oval foot

5.6cm

For a similar example in The Water Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles, 水松石山房鼻煙壺珍藏 see cat no. 34.2.416

£400-600

263

A FAMILLE-ROSE ‘DOVES AND PEKINESE’ SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG, 1821-1850

Of globular form with mock mask and ring handles in blue enamel, painted to one side with a pair of pigeons, the other with two playful pekinese dogs, the foot inscribed in iron-red seal script (AW11) 5.5cm

Provenance:

Hugh Moss, August 1970. cat. no. 286

£1,500-2,500

264

AN ‘IMPERIAL YELLOW’ GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1850

Of shouldered globular form, the opaque glass of yolky tone (AW269) 7cm

Provenance:

Robert Hall, 26th November 2007

Avrina Pugh Collection, Sotheby’s New York, 31st March & 1st April 2005, lot 515

£3,000-5,000

265

A REFERENCE LIBRARY ON CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES

To include:

Snuff Bottles of China, Hugh M. Moss, London June 1971

The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, Moss, Graham, Tsang, New York 1993

Snuff Bottles from China, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Helen White, London 1992

The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Michael C. Hughes Baltimore 2009

The Baur Collection, Genève 2007

One Thousand Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong 1995, The Collection of Mr Yeung Tat-che

Old Wine into Old Bottles, A Collectors Commonplace Book by Alexander Brody, Hong Kong 1993

A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Mary & George Bloch Collection, Moss, Graham, Tsang, Hong Kong 2000, Vol. 4,5,6

Chinese Snuff Bottles from The Fernhill Park Collection, The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York 1991 (QTY)

£200-300

TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

266

A RUBY OVERLAY ON WHITE GLASS ‘EIGHT HORSES OF MUWANG’ SNUFF BOTTLE

1800-1880

Of shouldered ovoid form, carved with four horses to either side, one side with a groom holding a whip, the scenes framed by a willow and pine tree, convex oval foot (AW271) 6cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner, 10th May 2005

Patrica Miller Collection (Hawaii)

£800-1,000

267

AN IRON-RED AND BLACK ENAMELLED ‘ARCHAISTIC CHARACTERS’ PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL KILNS JINGDEZHEN, 1830-1860

Of shouldered cylindrical form, painted with an arrangement of forty-four alternating red and black characters (AW272) 6.8cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner 10th November 2008

Gill Small Collection (USA)

Kleiner comments: ‘The decoration on this bottle is highly unusual and does not appear to have been recorded previously. The characters are probably copied from the inscription on ivories of the Shang dynasty circa 1500 B.C.’

£150-250

268

AN IRON-RED DECORATED ‘SEALS’ PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL KILNS, JINGDEZHEN, RED FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF XIANFENG, 1851-1861

Of shouldered cylindrical form, enamelled in iron-red with an arrangement of eight different seals (AW273) 5.4cm

Provenance:

Robert Kleiner 10th November 2008

Patricia Miller Collection (Hawaii)

£300-500

269 A THREE-COLOUR GLASS OVERLAY ‘ELEPHANT’ SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 19TH CENTURY

Carved in green, white and pink overlays in the form of a bulbous elephant, the waisted neck with a blade-knop band, the howdah carved with a lotus and butterfly 6.4cm

For two bottles of this form from the Bloch Collection, illustrated in Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Vol 5, Glass, no. 856 & 971. The auspicious Buddhist motif of an elephant carrying a vase provides the homonym for ‘peace and prosperity.’ Stone figures of elephants with vases on their backs may be found along the sacred way, which leads to the tombs of the Ming and Qing dynasty emperors

£2,000-3,000

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2. 仲介:作為拍賣行，本公司通常以代理買方的身份簽署合同。爲了保護客戶隱私權，本公司不會公開競買人的資訊。

3. 估價:估價是爲了提供競買人一個大概的價格浮動範圍。

所有提供的拍賣品均設有賣家所定的保密的最低價，拍品不會以低於此價出售。圖錄上較低的估價價格即可能是該拍賣品的底價。估價不包括競買人支付的傭金和VAT增值稅。估價會在拍賣之前提供給競買人。

4. 買入價格:競買人需要付成交價和傭金(每件拍品的成交價低於£500,000 取25%，超過 £500,000 上部份取12%)+ VAT 增值稅

5. VAT增值稅:買家須以有關法律所規定的稅率及時間繳付增值稅。增值稅會在成交價和傭金之上收取。帶有星號(*)的拍品是從歐盟國家進口的，將徵收20%進口VAT增值稅。帶有雙星符號(**)的拍品是從歐盟以外的國家進口的，當下的 VAT增值稅為5%。如果沒有以上敘述的兩種符號，該拍品就不需要徵收VAT增值稅。

6. Alastair Gibson拍賣行:本公司是賣家的仲介，所有拍品的資訊均源自於賣家，同時也會檢查拍品的情況。本公司在關於拍品的目錄、品相報告和另外口頭與書面的所有陳述，均只屬於意見的表述，而不應依據為事實的陳述。目錄和品相報告中所提及的有關瑕疵和未經修復的敘述只作為對該拍品的參考，不應被依據為拍品的真實狀況。所以競買人在拍賣前仔細檢查拍品情況是一個明智的選擇。但如果發現拍品存在‘ 蓄意偽造’的情況，在三個星期內可能可以被退還。 (蓄意偽造的詳細解釋可以在本公司的拍賣條款裏查閱)

7. 電器拍品:所有電器拍品都以古董的形式進行拍賣，如果是用於日常使用請在拍賣之前與專業電器公司確認其安全性。

8. 出口拍品:買家如果想要出口競拍所得物品需要查明:a)是否需要出口許可證。b)要攜帶入境的國家是否對該類拍品有禁令。比如說，可能會禁止攜帶犀角，象牙。如有需要請詢問本公司前臺服務。但上述的兩種情況都不作為取消交易和推遲付款的原因。

9. 競投:競買人需要在拍賣前進行註冊，登記時需要提供姓名，地址。新客戶需要向本公司提供身份證明。如需要電話競投服務，請儘早與本公司進行登記。

10. 競投委託:該項服務是以書面的形式委託Alastair Gibson 在不超過其指定金額下競投拍賣品。工作人員將參考底價，盡力以最低價進行競投，如果Alastair Gibson收到兩個或以上相同價格的書面競投，則以最先與本公司簽訂委託競投協定者為成功競投者。

11. 付款方式:按照規定，成交拍品需要付清所有遺留款項以後才能取貨。關於付款方式請提前與本公司前臺聯系。

12. 取貨和存儲:請查閱本公司拍賣條款裏關於取貨和儲存的有關信息。所有推遲提取的拍品都會徵收相應的存儲費用。

賣家委託條件

1. 解釋: 下文中用到‘您’代表賣家或仲介機構，同樣‘我們’代表拍賣行。

2. 傭金: 拍品成交價在£999 內收取15%的傭金 +VAT增值稅，超過£1,000 拍品需要徵收10% 的傭金+VAT。

3. 運輸費：所有拍品務必要在截止日期前送達我們拍賣行，且所有費用將由您來承擔。我們可以在運送過程中幫助您但是本公司不承擔運輸中發生任何狀況的責任。

4. 丟失和損傷保險: 我們沒有為客戶準備FSA的保險，但本公司用拍品的最低估價作為保護承擔責任賠償。我們會收取成交價的1.5%作為責任賠償的保險費用，如果您的拍品沒有成交那麼我們會以估價的中間值為標準收取費用。如果您不需要這項服務，那麼您將承擔丟失和損傷的風險，直到買家取走該拍品。

5. 插圖: 插圖的費用由您來承擔。若我們覺得拍品需要插圖會尋求您的允許，我們會事先通知您。但所有圖像和文字說明的版權都屬本公司所有。

6. 底價和我們的判斷: 在拍賣會開始之前我們會和您關於拍品的預訂價達成共識。

7. 我們可以賣出低於拍品預訂價，但我們會支付您該拍品的保留價。但如果您給予本公司‘裁決’的權利，我們會同意以低於預訂價10%的價格出售。

保留價:

(a) 敬請您務必在拍賣前提供給我們您需要的保留價。保留價必須是我們認為合理的成交價格，本公司有權利下降不合理的高保留價。

(b) 保留價確定之後不能被改動。

8. 電器拍品:這些拍品需要詳細的安全證明和防火安全證明。若發現拍品有安全隱患，該拍品將不被進行競投，我們有權要求您取走該拍品。

9. 室內裝飾品:室內裝飾品如果發現有防火安全隱患，根據 Provisions of The Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1997, Schedule 1條例，我們有權要求您取走該拍品。

10. 拍品描述:請告知我們正確的拍品資訊，包括拍品來源等等。對於拍品的描述的正確性有嚴格的責任賠償，且在很多情況下您將承擔該責任。如果您沒有反對我們對您的拍品描述，我們將假定您同意您已認可。若競買人發現拍品描述和實際拍品不符我們將退還買家所付金額。我們必須引提醒您，即使您確實不知道拍品描述和實際不相符也必須遵循該條例。

11. 未成交的物品:如果拍品沒有成交, 可以在您的允許下在下一次拍賣中再次進行競投。如果我們認為該拍品無法賣出，請您務必儘快從本公司提貨，因為我們有權向您徵收倉庫儲存費。

12. 撤拍和買入的物品:撤拍或自行買入的拍品若已列入圖錄或已經開始印刷，則應支付保留價或者圖錄中最低估價的 10%的傭金加上VAT增值稅。

13. 拍賣條例:您所有同意的物品將根據拍賣條例進行出售，您或者仲介有權出售該物品。如違反該條例您將承擔我們、買家和第三方的所有損失和賠償。

14. 扣除賣家傭金和費用以及保留買家傭金和利息的權利: (a) 您可以授權要求我們取消傭金和所有相關費用，但是我們有權利保留買家所支付的傭金和相關費用所產生的利息。

(b) 您可以授權我們在拍賣結束印業當天進行私下協議出售沒有成交的拍品，但我們可以收取和拍賣成交時同樣的傭金和費用。

15. 存儲:我們對任何不能馬上上拍的物品不負責，且我們有權收取每天£2 儲存費。如果三個星期以後還是沒有前來領取，我們有權利出售該物品並收取相關費用。

16. 結算:通常拍賣結束以後28天內可以完成款項結算，除非買家未付款。

CONDITIONS OF SALE

Alastair Gibson Auctions carries on business with bidders, buyers and all those present in the auction room prior to or in connection with a sale on the following General Conditions and on such other terms, conditions and notices as may be referred to herein.

1. DEFINITIONS

In these Conditions:

(a) ‘auctioneer’ means Alastair Gibson Auctions or its authorised auctioneer, as appropriate;

(b) ‘deliberate forgery’ means an imitation made with the intention of deceiving as to authorship, origin, date, age, period, culture or source but which is unequivocally described in the catalogue as being the work of a particular creator and which at the date of the sale had a value materially less than it would have had if it had been in accordance with the description;

(c) ‘hammer price’ means the level of bidding reached (at or above any reserve) when the auctioneer brings down the hammer;

(d) ‘terms of consignment’ means the stipulated terms and rates of commission on which Alastair Gibson Auctions accepts instructions from sellers or their agents;

(e) ‘total amount due’ means the hammer price in respect of the lot sold together with any premium, Value Added Tax chargeable and any additional charges payable by a defaulting buyer under these Conditions;

(f) ‘sale proceeds’ means the net amount due to the seller, being the hammer price of the lot sold less commission at the stated rate, Value Added Tax chargeable and any other amounts due to us by the seller in whatever capacity and however arising.

(g) ‘‘You’, ‘Your’, etc. refer to the buyer as identified in Condition 2.

(h) The singular includes the plural and vice versa as appropriate.

2. BIDDING PROCEDURES AND THE BUYER

(a) Bidders are required to register their particulars before bidding and to satisfy any security arrangements before entering the auction room to view or bid;

(b) the maker of the highest bid accepted by the auctioneer conducting the sale shall be the buyer at the hammer price and any dispute about a bid shall be settled at the auctioneer’s absolute discretion by reoffering the Lot during the course of the auction or otherwise. The auctioneer shall act reasonably in exercising this discretion.

(d) Our right to bid on behalf of the seller is expressly reserved up to the amount of any reserve and the right to refuse any bid is also reserved.

3. INCREMENTS

Bidding increments shall be at the auctioneer’s sole discretion.

4. THE PURCHASE PRICE

The Buyer shall pay the hammer price together with a premium thereon of 25% plus VAT @20% (totalling 30% inclusive) on the first £500,000 and 12% plus VAT @20% (14.4%) inclusive thereafter.

5. VALUE ADDED TAX

Value Added Tax on the hammer price is imposed by law on all items affixed with a † or Ω. Value Added Tax is charged at the appropriate rate prevailing by law at the date of sale and is payable by buyers of relevant lots. (Please refer to ‘Information for Buyers’ for a brief explanation of the VAT position).

6. PAYMENT

(a) Immediately a lot is sold you will: (i) give to us, if requested, proof of identity, and (ii) pay to us the total amount due in pounds sterling

(b) Any payments by you to us may be applied by us towards any sums owing from you to us on any account whatever without regard to any directions of you or your agent, whether express or implied.

(c) In line with new legislation we reserve the right to investigate and identify the source of any funds received by us. The completion of the sale of a Lot will be postponed or cancelled at our discretion if further time is needed for investigation, or if you are in breach of your warranties as a buyer, or if we consider the sale to be unlawful or in any way cause liabilities or be detrimental to either Alastair Gibson Auctions or the Seller.

7. TITLE AND COLLECTION OF PURCHASES

(a) The ownership of any Lots purchased shall not pass to you until you have made payment in full to us of the total amount due.

(b) You shall at your own risk and expense collect any lots that you have purchased and paid for from our premises not later than 3 working days following the day of the auction or upon the clearance of any cheque used for payment (if later) after which you shall be responsible for any collection, storage and insurance charges.

8. REMEDIES FOR NON-PAYMENT OR FAILURE TO COLLECT PURCHASES

(a) If any Lot is not paid for in full and taken away in accordance with these Conditions or if there is any other breach of these Conditions, we, as agent for the seller and on our own behalf, shall at our absolute discretion and without prejudice to any other rights we may have, be entitled to exercise one or more of the following rights and remedies:

(i.) to proceed against you for damages for breach of contract;

(ii.) to rescind the sale of that lot and/or any other lots sold by us to you;

(iii.) to resell the lot (by auction or private treaty) in which case you shall be responsible for any resulting deficiency in the total amount due (after crediting any part payment and adding any resale costs). Any surplus so arising shall belong to the seller;

(iv.) to remove, store and insure the lot at your expense and, in the case of storage, either at our premises or elsewhere;

(v.) to charge interest at a rate not exceeding 1.5% per month on the total amount due to the extent it remains unpaid for more than 3 working days after the sale;

(vi.) to retain that or any other lot sold to you until you pay the total amount due;

(vii.) to reject or ignore bids from you or your agent at future auctions or to impose conditions before any such bids shall be accepted;

(viii) to apply any proceeds of sale of other Lots due or in future becoming due to you towards the settlement of the total amount due and to exercise a lien (that is a right to retain possession of any of your property in our possession for any purpose until the debt due is satisfied.

(b) We shall, as agent for the seller and on our own behalf pursue these rights and remedies only so far as is reasonable to make appropriate recovery in respect of breach of these conditions

9. THIRD PARTY LIABILITY

All members of the public on our premises are there at their own risk and must note the lay-out of the accommodation and security arrangements. Accordingly neither the auctioneer nor our employees or agents shall incur liability for death or personal injury (except as required by law by reason of our negligence) or similarly for the safety of the property of persons visiting prior to or at a sale.

10. COMMISSION BIDS

Whilst prospective buyers are strongly advised to attend the auction and are always responsible for any decision to bid for a particular lot and shall be assumed to have carefully inspected and satisfied themselves as to its condition, we will if so instructed clearly and in writing execute bids on their behalf. Neither the auctioneer nor our employees or agents shall be responsible for any failure to do so save where such failure is unreasonable. Where two or more commission bids at the same level are recorded we reserve the right in our absolute discretion to prefer the first bid so made.

11. WARRANTY OF TITLE AND AVAILABILITY

The seller warrants to the auctioneer and you that the seller is the true owner of the property consigned or is properly authorised by the true owner to consign it for sale and is able to transfer good and marketable title to the property free from any third party claims.

12. AGENCY

The auctioneer normally acts as agent only and disclaims any responsibility for default by sellers or buyers.

13. TERMS OF SALE

The seller acknowledges that lots are sold subject to the stipulations of these Conditions in their entirety and on the Terms of Consignment as notified to the consignor at the time of the entry of the lot.

14. DESCRIPTIONS AND CONDITION

(a) Whilst we seek to describe lots accurately, it may be impractical for us to carry out exhaustive due diligence on each lot. Prospective buyers are given ample opportunities to view and inspect before any sale and they (and any independent experts on their behalf) must satisfy themselves as to the accuracy of any description applied to a lot. Prospective buyers also bid on the understanding that, inevitably, representations or statements by us as to authorship, genuineness, origin, date, age, provenance, condition or estimated selling price involve matters of opinion. We undertake that any such opinion shall be honestly and reasonably held and accept liability for opinions given negligently or fraudulently. Subject to the foregoing neither we the auctioneer nor our employees or agents nor the seller accept liability for the correctness of such opinions and all conditions and warranties, whether relating to description, condition or quality of lots, express, implied or statutory, are hereby excluded. This Condition is subject to the next following Condition concerning deliberate forgeries and applies save as provided for in paragraph 6 ‘information to buyers’.

(b) Private treaty sales made under these Conditions are deemed to be sales by auction for purposes of consumer legislation.

15. FORGERIES

Notwithstanding the preceding Condition, any lot which proves to be a deliberate forgery (as defined) may be returned to us by you within 21 days of the auction provided it is in the same condition as when bought, and is accompanied by particulars identifying it from the relevant catalogue description and a written statement of defects. If we are satisfied from the evidence presented that the lot is a deliberate forgery we shall refund the money paid by you for the lot including any buyer’s premium provided that (1) if the catalogue description reflected the accepted view of scholars and experts as at the date of sale or (2) you personally are not able to transfer a good and marketable title to us, you shall have no rights under this condition. The right of return provided by this Condition is additional to any right or remedy provided by law or by these Conditions of Sale.

GENERAL

16. We shall have the right at our discretion, to refuse admission to our premises or attendance at our auctions by any person.

17. (a) Any right to compensation for losses liabilities and expenses incurred in respect of and as a result of any breach of these Conditions and any exclusions provided by them shall be available to the seller and/or the auctioneer as appropriate.

(b) Such rights and exclusions shall extend to and be deemed to be for the benefit of employees and agents of the seller and/or the auctioneer who may themselves enforce them.

18. Any notice to any buyer, seller, bidder or viewer may be given by first class mail or Swiftmail in which case it shall be deemed to have been received by the addressee 48 hours after posting.

19. Special terms may be used in catalogue descriptions of particular classes of items in which case the descriptions must be interpreted in accordance with any glossary appearing in the catalogue.

20. Any indulgence extended to bidders buyers or sellers by us notwithstanding the strict terms of these Conditions or of the Terms of Consignment shall affect the position at the relevant time only and in respect of that particular concession only; in all other respects these Conditions shall be construed as having full force and effect.

21. English law applies to the interpretation of these Conditions.

22. Prior written consent must be sought by the buyer or any other party for the use of any images, illustrations and written materials produced by or for Alastair Gibson Auctions relating to a lot or sale, including the contents of a catalogue. Copyright for any of the aforementioned will remain the property of Alastair Gibson Auctions, subject to the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Alastair Gibson Auctions and the seller make no representations or warranties that the buyer of a lot will acquire any copyright or other reproduction rights to it.

PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, LITHOGRAPHS, ENGRAVINGS AND PRINTS

In accordance with long standing practice in Fine Art Sale Rooms certain terms used in descriptions in the Catalogue have the meanings ascribed to them in the glossary below.

Glossary

Any statement as to authorship, attribution, origin, date, age, provenance and condition is a statement of opinion and is not to be taken as a statement of fact. The Company reserves the right, in forming their opinion, to consult and rely upon any expert or authority considered by them to be reliable.

(a) Edward Lear: In our opinion a work by the artist. (When the artist’s forename(s) is not known, a series of asterisks, followed by the surname of the artist, whether preceded by an initial or not, indicates that in our opinion the work is by the artist named.

(b) Attributed to Edward Lear: In our opinion probably a work by the artist but less certainty as to authorship is expressed than in the preceding category.

(c) Studio of Edward Lear: In our opinion a work by an unknown hand in the studio of the artist which may be or may not have been executed under the artist’s direction.

(d) Circle of Edward Lear: In our opinion a work by an as yet unidentified but distinct hand, closely associated with the named artist but not necessarily his pupil.

(e) Style of ...; Follower of Edward Lear: In our opinion a work by a painter working in the artist’s style, contemporary or nearly contemporary, but not necessarily his pupil.

(f) Manner of Edward Lear: In our opinion a work in the style of the artist and of a later date.

(g) After Edward Lear: In our opinion a copy of a known work of the artist.

(h) The term signed and/or dated and/or inscribed means that in our opinion the signature and/or date and/or inscription are from the hand of the artist.

(i) The term bears a signature and/or date and/or inscription means that in our opinion the signature and/or date and/or inscription have been added by another hand.

(j) Dimensions are given height before width. (k) Pictures are framed unless otherwise stated.

BOOKS AUCTIONS

If, on collation, any named item in this catalogue proves defective in text or illustration, the lot may be returned within 14 days of the sale with the defects stated in writing. This proviso shall not apply to defects stated in the catalogue or announced at the time of sale; nor to the absence of blanks, half titles, tissue guards or advertisements, damage in respect of bindings, stains, spotting, marginal tears or other defects not affecting completeness of text or illustration; nor to drawings, autographs, letters or manuscripts, signed photographs, music, atlases, maps or periodicals; nor to books not identified by title; nor to books sold not subject to return.

ARTIST’S RESALE RIGHT / DROIT DE SUITE

Droit de Suite is a royalty payable to a qualifying artist or the artist’s heirs each time a work is resold during the artist’s lifetime and up to a period of 70 years after the artist’s death. Royalties are calculated on a sliding percentage scale based on the hammer price excluding the buyer’s premium. The royalty does not apply to lots selling below the sterling equivalent of £1,000 and the maximum royalty payable on any single lot is the sterling equivalent of £10,000.

Droit de Suite, which is not subject to VAT, will be added to the buyer’s purchase price and then passed on to the relevant collecting agency by the auctioneer.

Please enquire for the accepted exchange rate on the day of the sale.

Royalties for Droit de Suite are as follows: 4% Up to £50,000

3% £50,000.01 - 200,000

1% £200,000.01 - 350,000

0.5% £350,000.01 - 500,000

0.25% In excess of £500,000

Up to a maximum levy of £10,000

Lots marked with a ‡ symbol are potentially subject to the levy

拍賣條例

Alastair Gibson拍賣有限公司是與競買人、賣家和在拍賣現場的人進行業務運作。拍賣條例可以從這裡參考查閱。

1. 定義:

a) ‘拍賣官’代表Alastair Gibson拍賣公司或他授權的拍賣官。

b) ‘蓄意偽造’是指一件仿品試圖偽造原創作者、時期、年紀、年代、文化或來源於圖錄中描述的不同，而在拍賣當天拍出了與該仿品的本身價值不符的價格。

c) ‘成交(落錘)價’是指競拍價格超過了保留價，而拍賣師落錘成交的價格。

d) ‘委託條款’是指Alastair Gibson拍賣行規定的賣家或仲介的條約和傭金的百分比率。

e) ‘總額’是指成交價、買家傭金，VAT增值稅和其他費用加起來買家付款的總和。

f) ‘銷售收益’指賣家的淨收益，成交價減去賣家傭金、 VAT增值稅和其他費用的餘額。

g) ‘你，你們’等等指買家請參考條例第二條。

2. 拍賣過程和買家:

a) 競買人在競投之前，必須填妥及簽注登記表格才能參加本公司拍賣。

b) 在拍賣官的決定下，競買人出價最高且被拍賣官接受的競買人才能成為該物品的買家。下錘則表示賣家和買家之間的拍賣合約已經達成。

c) 競買人會被我們視作委託人。我們有權利為賣家競投到其設定的保留價，且有權利拒絕任何競投。

3. 加價: 拍賣官有權自行決定加價幅度

4. 買入價格: 競買人需要付成交價和傭金(每件拍品的成交價首£500,000 取25%，另外超過 £500,000 上部份收取12%)+ VAT增值稅

5. 增值稅:根據法律規定，買家所有成交的拍品的成交價上要支付VAT增值稅。(具體信息請查閱買家須知的增值稅部份)

6. 付款:拍下拍品以後: i) 如果需要請提供我們您的身份證明 ii) 以英鎊為貨幣形式付款

iii) 買家需要付清我們計算出的應付金額，包括以您或您仲介名義下的所有款項。

7. 所有權和領取已購買物品:

a) 物品的所有權只有在您付清全部應付金額之後才能被轉移。

b) 您需要在拍賣結束後三個工作日付清金額，且取走物品以後所發生的所有責任都由您來擔當。

c) 在付款之前，任何物品不能被提取。

8. 不付款或未領取已購買拍品的提醒:

a) 如果有買家沒有全部付清應付金額，根據條例我們作為賣家仲介和拍賣行可以執行以下權利和提醒:

i) 對您的違約進行法律訴訟程式。

ii) 撤回您從本公司競投的所有成交拍品

iii) 如果重新賣出拍品(通過拍賣或私人交涉成交)，您就要承擔所有重新拍賣所造成的任何高於您的成交價的部份歸賣家所有。

iv) 您拍品的運送、存放和投保的費用都由您承擔，至於存放地點可以在我們的儲藏室或者其他地方。

v) 如果沒有在拍賣結束後三個工作日內付款，我們將以每個月1.5%的比率收取利息。

vi) 直到您付清所有的應付金額，我們才能取消利息的收取。

vii) 在今後的任何拍賣中，不接受您做出的競投，或在接受任競投之前加一些必要條件。

viii) 申請出售任何其他拍品的收益，或在將來您在結算的時候，可以行使留置權。

1b) 我們作為賣家的仲介和拍賣行，我們執行以上的權利和提醒是爲了做出合理的補償。

9. 第三方責任:所有現場的公眾人員都必須注意現場的安排和安全隱患。拍賣官、我們的員工和都不對任何的死亡和人員傷亡負責(除法律認定是我們的疏忽外)。

10. 委託拍賣:雖然我們建議買家參加拍賣現場對所有競投負責，但如果需要我們可以為買家進行競投。工作人員將參考底價，盡力以最低價進行競投。如果Alastair Gibson收到兩個或以上相同價格的書面競投，則以最先與本公司簽訂委託競投協定者為成功競投者。

11. 所有權保證和有效性:賣家向拍賣行和您保證，物品的所有權和出處是該買家，且物品不受任何第三方索賠。

12. 仲介:拍賣行通常作為仲介不履行任何買家和賣家的義務。

13. 銷售條例:買家將在委託拍賣之時起承認履行所有委託條款。

14. 描述和條例:

a) 在我們尋找對拍品正確的描述的時候，可能不能對每個拍品都做到最詳盡的調查。在拍賣開始之前競買人和他們的鑒定師會被給予對每件拍品充分查看和調查的機會。競買人將會對我們的描述有不同的見解。我們承諾，任何此類意見會被相當誠實合理的接受。

b) 在這些條件下的成交的私人財產轉讓根據消費者權益法視為交易。

15. 偽造者:儘管有之前的條件，但任何拍品被證明是蓄意偽造，或可以在拍賣結束後21 以內原封不動的與相關證明材料一起歸還於我們。

如果我們認可您提供的資料證據可以證明該拍品存在蓄意偽造的事實，我們將退還您所付的傭金和成交價。但是如果1 從成交日起，眾學者和鑒定專家都認可圖錄中的描述。或者2 您個人無法提供一個更好的解釋給我們，那麼根據條例您就沒有權利要求我們退還拍品。常規信息

16. 我們有絕對權利拒絕任何人士進入拍賣場地進行拍賣。

17.

(a) 所有損壞賠償責任和毀約所帶來的費用都應該酌情賠償給賣家和拍賣行。

(b) 這種權利可以由拍賣行和其員工或賣家強制執行。

18. 任何對買家、賣家、競買人和觀展人的通知都會都以第一類郵件的方式在48 時內寄到其提供給我們的地址。

19. 圖錄描述中出現的特殊名詞都會在術語表中做詳細解釋。

20. 任何沒有節制的拖延或延長競投時間的買主或賣主我們會合情做出一定的讓步。

21. 英國法律可以用於解釋這些條例。

圖畫、素描、平板印刷、雕刻品和印刷

任何關於作者、歸屬，出處，時期，年份，來源和情況的敘述都是一件的聲明。不能把他當做事實敘述。公司有權利敘述意見用來提供相對可靠的顧問資訊。

書籍

如果發現書籍收藏中的描述和插圖中被證明有一些缺陷，請您以書面的形式解釋該收藏的問題，并在14天內退回該收藏。在圖錄中已經提及或在拍賣該物品之前指出的缺陷都不予接受。另外包括書中空白處、半個標題、廣告、書籍裝訂損壞、水漬和污漬。

ABSENTEE BIDDING FORM 委託競投表

FINE ASIAN ART

THE ANNE WRANGHAM COLLECTION OF CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES

WEDNESDAY 6TH JULY 2022 AT 10.30 AM

FINE ASIANART

Customer name:

客戶名稱

Address:

Customername:

住址

客⼾名稱

Postcode:

郵編

Address: 住址

Postcode:

Telephone:

電話

郵編

Email:

郵箱

Telephone: 電話

Signed:

簽名

Email: 郵箱

Signed: 簽名

WEDNESDAY 6TH JULY 2022 AT 10.30 AM

SATURDAY 8th NOVEMBER 2025, AT 11.00 AM GMT

Please bid on my behalf on the lots below, up to the prices shown (excluding buyers premium and VAT)

請代表我對以下拍品出價，最高可達所示價格（不包括買家佣金以及商品稅）

Pleasebidonmybehalfonthelotsbelow,uptothepricesshown(excludingbuyerspremiumandVAT)

These bids are to be executed by the auctioneer as cheaply as possible, as permitted by the reserve price and any other bids.

請代表我對以下拍品出價，最⾼可達所⽰價格（不包括買家佣⾦以及商品稅）

委託出價將由拍賣師在其他出價允許的情況下以盡可能低的價格幫委託人竟得拍品

Thesebidsaretobeexecutedbytheauctioneerascheaplyaspossible,aspermittedbythereservepriceand anyotherbids.

委託出價將由拍賣師在其他出價允許的情況下以盡可能低的價格幫委託⼈竟得拍品

All bids placed are subject to the conditions of business, a copy of which is available on request. 所有競投均受業務條件的約束，可應要求提供副本

Allbidsplacedaresubjecttotheconditionsofbusiness,acopyofwhichisavailableonrequest. 所有競投均受業務條件的約束，可應要求提供副本

BUYERS PREMIUM

買家佣金

BUYERS PREMIUM

買家佣⾦

Each lot is subject to a buyers premium of 25% plus VAT at 20% 每件拍品收取落槌價格的25%佣金以及商品稅 20%

Eachlotissubjecttoabuyerspremiumof25%plusVATat20% 每件拍品收取落槌價格的25%佣⾦以及商品稅20%

PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY IN CAPITAL LETTERS

PLEASE PRINTCLEARLY INCAPITAL LETTERS

Lot number (numerical order)

Lotnumber (numerical order)

Description of Lot

Price (excluding buyers premium and VAT)

Price (excludingbuyers premium andVAT) 價格（不包含傭⾦

價格（不包含傭金及商品稅）

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