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A INCISED AND GILDED METAL SNUFF BOTTLE A JAPANESE CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND EMBOSSED-FOIL
1720-1880 (GINBARI) SNUFF BOTTLE
Of tapering cylindrical form, with a stepped, collared shoulder and a Probably Meiji Period (1868-1912)
flat lip, the the shoulder with a wood grain pattern, the body with a gilt Of flattened tear-drop shape, depicting iris’s on each main face set
incised continuous landscape with a figure, a pagoda, trees and birds. against a silver-foil-ground dark blue enamel, all on a copper ground.
2 3/4in (7cm) high 2 5/16 inches (5.9cm) high, stopper
$1,000 - 1,500 $500 - 700
1720-1880年 填金山水圖鼻煙壺
或為明治時期 日本作銀貼七寶鼻煙壺
Provenance:
Clare Lawrence, March 1990 Provenance:
Arte + Antiquidade, Rio de Janeiro, September, 1995
Published:
ICSBS, Journal, Summer 1991, cover

This is one of select group of incised and gilt metal snuff bottles
produced in the 18th and 19th centuries. In general, these bottles
assume a cylindrical form and rely on decoration that is inspired
by decorative techniques that adorned Song and Ming dynasty
archaistic bronze vessels. On this bottle, the schematic depiction of
the mountains as overlapping triangles is a deliberate archaism seen
on Han dynasty tiles. For a lengthy discussion on other bottles from
this group, see Michael C. Hughes, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin,
Chinese Snuff Bottles, Baltimore, 2009, pp. 336-337, no. 259,where a
similar bottle is illustrated.

Another sold in these rooms, Bonhams New York, 18 March 2019,
lot 734.

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