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A BLACK-OVERLAY PINK GLASS ‘POCKET WATCH’
SNUFF BOTTLE
1830-1900
Each main side is carved through the black overlay to the opaque
pink ground with a circular panel enclosing a painted watch face on
paper beneath transparent glass, and with mask-and-ring handles
on the narrow sides.

2¡ in. (6 cm.) high, jade stopper

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE

Robert C. Eldred Co., East Dennis, Massachusetts.
Linda Riddell Hofman Collection; Bonham’s New York, 22 March
2011, lot 88.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5185.
1830-1900年 粉紅地套黑玻璃懷錶式鼻煙壺

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•386 Saratani Tomizo (b. 1949) began his career as a master lacquerer
AN EMBELLISHED JET SNUFF BOTTLE in the 1960s, apprenticing under lacquer artists Saratani Katsuzo,
BOTTLE, PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, 1740-1830 his father, and Suzuki Masaya. He joined the Kyoto lacquer frm
EMBELLISHMENT, TOMIZO SARATANI, KYOTO, JAPAN, Zohiko in 1971. From 1975 to 1981, Saratani worked in Vienna as a
2008-2009 restorer and lecturer in the Austrian National Museum of Applied
One side is decorated in diferent shades of gold lacquer with two Arts (MAK). He participated in the Vienna World Craft Exhibition
quail standing beneath millet stalks, the reverse with two insects in 1981. In the 1980s and 1990s Saratani lived in London and
amidst delicate leafy stems and grasses highlighted with mother- Chicago, creating his own works and working as an expert
of-pearl. restorer. He returned to Japan, founding the lacquer company
Kuri in Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture, in 2009. Saratani is a superb
2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper practitioner of traditional Japanese lacquer styles and forms.

$3,500-4,500 煤玉蒔繪嵌寶歲歲平安圖鼻煙壺

PROVENANCE 鼻煙壺：1740-1830年

Robert Hall, London, 2011. 蒔繪：日本 京都 約2008-2009年間 更谷富造
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 5269.

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