Decorative Arts, Furniture and Jewellery
Live Virtual Auction, 4 - 5 April 2022
Asian Art
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About this Item
A Chinese blue and white and copper-red snuff bottle, Qing Dynasty, 19th century
the cylindrical body painted with a masked figure and his horse confronting two travellers, with an attendant looking on, within a landscape with trees, the neck painted with tassels between blue-line borders, raised on a low foot, underglaze-blue double-ring mark, lacking stopper, 8cm high; a Chinese blue and white snuff bottle, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, the body painted with a continuous scene of a scholar and his attendant within a garden, chip to foot rim, lacking stopper, 8,2cm high; another, the body painted with a small boy holding a staff before a balustraded garden, lacking stopper, 7,5cm high; another, the tapering body painted with six five-clawed sea dragons amongst waves contesting a flaming pearl, the neck painted with ruyis, the base with a fisherman mark of commendation, yellow stone stopper loose, 6cm high; and a Chinese famille-verte snuff bottle, late 19th/early 20th century, ovoid, the body enamelled with a tree and dwellings in a balustraded garden before a river, the reverse enamelled with pine trees before a mountainscape, green stone stopper, iron-red seal mark, iron-red character mark, 7,9cm high
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Provenance
Property of an Oriental Collector.