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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A FINELY CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER SNUFF BOTTLE
JAPAN, 1860-1920
The snuf bottle is fnely carved in deep relief through an upper layer of red on This is an exceptional example of a small group of superbly carved lacquer
a middle layer of green to reveal the base layer of orange with a continuous and ivory snuf bottles made in Japan between about 1860 and the early-
scene of a scholar arriving on a horse on the shore of a lake with two twentieth century. For other examples of the group, see B. Stevens, The
attendants, one carrying a large umbrella over his head and the other holding a Collectors Book of Snuf Bottles, no. 1018 (ivory), no. 753 (two color lacquer),
pole, as he is greeted by a woman bowing slightly towards him, while another and no. 757, (two-color lacquer and ivory); Moss, Graham, Tsang, The Art of
stands behind her gazing back at a pleasure boat. A man and two women are the Chinese Snuf Bottle. The J & J Collection, nos. 314-317 (lacquer); Chinese
under the canopied section of the boat and are being negotiated towards the Snuf Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, no. 354 (lacquer and
shore by two boatmen, one with a long paddle at the prow and the other seated ivory), and no. 355 (two-color lacquer).
at the tiller in the stern, all in a landscape setting between decorative borders. 1860-1920 年 日本製剔彩人物故事圖鼻煙壺
The base is inscribed with an apocryphal Qianlong mark.
3¿ in. (7.9 cm.) high, bronze collar and lacquer stopper
$15,000-20,000

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, 3 December 1997, lot 466.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.
J & J Collection.
J & J Collection, Part V; Christie’s New York, 17 September 2008, lot 49.

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