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         THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
         3094

         A VERY RARE JAPANESE EMBELLISHED                  ᑾᕵᥩᆯᕴᕪ ᒞᦲᓂᕪ   ⯁❢͂͘ॲ㸭ᵜ૑
         LACQUER SNUFF BOTTLE
                                                           ϝᬝ
         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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         HK$100,000-150,000              US$13,000-19,000  B $PMMFDUPSǷ卿ែ՗卿    ჺ卿㮰   卿எ‸
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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ទᐽ৅࣊ᛓǯⷝ⥾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
                                                           ℳຽੵԧ㫡㳍㽁⩧Ӵ卿Ӭ㬷㱈⇂㵶ԧ㸣ⓓ᱖⩧߅卿ཆԋஇᘢԿ݉⡵⯝ᚚ
         LITERATURE                                        ទ۔⢴႙⻱໭⧻⢙भǯݥ଍ㅳה⩠♾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    ჺ᥼ℛ⧻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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