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Ť585 LITERATURE
A CARVED RED LACQUER AND GILT SNUFF BOTTLE
JAPAN, THE GOLD AND CINNABAR MASTER, 1860-1930 “Kleiner Bloch Collection,” JICSBS, Autumn 1996, p. 6, no. 214, fig. 5.
The bottle is carved on either side with a recessed cartouche, on Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary
one side depicting a lady seated in a garden beneath a pine tree and and George Bloch Collection, Volume 7, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2009, pp.
on the other with two boys beneath a pine branch, all surrounded 551-553, no. 1699.
by decorative diapers and swirling gilt clouds on the shoulder and
neck. In the footnote to this bottle in Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury
of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection,
24 in. (6.4 cm.) high, glass stopper Volume 7, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2009, pp. 551-553, the authors
note that it falls within an identifiable group of carved Japanese
$6,000-8,000 lacquer bottles, all by the same hand. The group is distinguished
by the cleverly balanced mixture of red and gold lacquer and the
PROVENANCE composition of a shaped panel on either side below a leiwen band.
All of the bottes in this group exhibit the high level of artistry that
Hartman Rare Art, New York, 1959. was prevalent on 19th-century Japanese lacquer wares.
Gerd Lester Collection, 1986.
Snuff Bottles from the Mary and George Bloch Collection: Part II; 䍆垆怳ㅳㄦ怶卲ᡱհ㎆㝑偤⥘聖㌉
Bonham’s Hong Kong, 23 November 2010, lot 85.
Robert Kleiner, London, 2010.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5111.

EXHIBITED

London, Sydney L. Moss, Ltd., October 1987.
Vienna, Creditanstalt, May-June 1993.

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