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THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
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A VERY RARE JAPANESE EMBELLISHED ᑾᕵᥩᆯᕴᕪ ᒞᦲᓂᕪ ⯁❢͂͘ॲ㸭ᵜ
LACQUER SNUFF BOTTLE
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JAPAN, 1840-1880
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The bottle is finely decorated on one side with a bearded immortal -JMMB 4 1FSSZⅧ⻦
holding a scroll seated on a crane in flight amidst swirling clouds. &MNFS " $MBBS ഏ՞Ⅷ⻦卿㋱ᙱⵙ‰ᇪ卿֗ߧ㋱֗
The reverse depicts a man seated on a carp leaping through
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tumultuous, crashing waves. The narrow sides, the tops of the
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shoulders, and the original stopper are decorated with stylised
chrysanthemum blossoms borne on dense foliate scroll.
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2 Æ in. (7 cm.) high, stopper
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PROVENANCE
George Fischer Collection ೭ࢵᝯໝワឆߒǷ卿 ჺ ᝲ卿 ឆ卿எ‸ 卿㮰
Lilla S. Perry Collection
ࢦԬӽ⡕Ӵࢮ卿ְ㪪ⶬ᪹⧻ែᙹ⻱ワ⎏᱁リῂᷲ卿ᚚទ႙⻱།㧷ංἃ
Mrs. Elmer A. Claar, Northfield, Illinois ᶕ㑷㇛ᙹႪౚ⎏㫬㇝⩧ㅳה䁉ὸ೭卿ទᐽ࣊ᛓǯⷝ⥾ᶜㅳ䁉ὸ卿㯝㛑
The Estate of Martha M. Renk; sold at Christie’s New York, 20
㱈ս㢶⡠卿೭㕇㫐㬷սԋஇᚺջᛮឆ‸⊺ڔἃ⟾ទ㙊リ⥾㱈卿Ӭ㬷⊺
September 2005, lot 441
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LITERATURE ទ۔⢴႙⻱⧻⢙भǯݥㅳה⩠♾卿႙⻱⡿⮏卿ⰰᆭⵖ㿃卿㞖㠤Հⰰ
L. S. Perry, Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Adventures & Studies of a ⏟Մᛇ㇏卿ἃऱ㯸䁉ὸ೭႙⻱Ԡ⩖ᤶ卿ᙻ ჺℛ⧻இ᯳㯀⯟リԠ
Collector, Tokyo, 1960, p. 142, no. 147 இ㪡ԋஇ䁉ὸ೭ࢵᝯӬ✙ǯ
M. M. Renk, "Gold Lacquer Snuff Bottle," JICSBS, vol. 11, no. 1,
September 1979, pp. 23-4 and 34
During the latter part of the ninteenth century, Japanese workshops
began to expand their repertoire of forms to include snuff bottles, most
likely in response to the growing demand from Western collectors.
This bottle is decorated in a variety of lacquer techniques that were
very much in vogue in Japan from the latter half of the 18th century
till the mid 19th century. Designed in gold and silver hiramaki-e
and takamaki-e, ('flat' and 'raised' lacquer painting) and embellished
with hirame and kirigane (cut gold and gold flakes) against a nashiji
(pearskin) background, it illustrates nicely the wide array of decorative
skills common among lacquer artists of Edo-period Japan.
This bottle won first prize in the organic category at the International
Chinese Snuff Bottle Society's 1972 convention in Boston,
Massachusetts.
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