Page 72 - Ruth and Carl Barron Snuff Bottles September 2016

Ť514
AN UNUSUAL CARVED AGATE SNUFF
BOTTLE
SUZHOU SCHOOL, 1760-1880
The bottle is finely carved through the brownish-black
and off-white inclusions on one side with a scholar
holding a fan and his attendant seated on a rocky
outcrop surrounded by pine branches and clouds, and on
the other with a fisherman.

2¡ in. (6.2 cm.) high, shell stopper

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2008.
The Meriem Collection; Christie’s New York, 19 March
2008, lot 247.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 4846.

514 The handling of the striped, beautifully textured
(two views) material of this bottle, as well as the different tones
of color on varying planes and the sculptural quality
of the carving, are traditionally associated with the
Suzhou school. However, the flattened form and degree
of hollowing exhibited are a departure from Suzhou
bottles, which tend to have more rounded bodies. While
the complex carving and extensive use of the natural
colors in the stone resemble the Zhiting School, the
style is not typical, suggesting perhaps an attribution
to another Suzhou school. This flattened form appears
in snuff bottles in a wide variety of materials during the
mid-Qing period, both imperial and otherwise, and was
one of a number of popular standards.

䍆䉄‫ה‬蚉⇢䉑㌁⥘聖㌉

Ť515

THREE ENAMELED SNUFF BOTTLES
1770-1920

The first porcelain bottle, Jingdezhen kilns, 1880-1920,
is enameled with figural scenes and bears an apocryphal
four-character Qianlong mark on the base. The second,
Jingdezhen kilns, 1820-1860, is a porcelain bottle with
enameled green katydids on a coffee-tone ground.
The third bottle, Imperial, Yangzhou, 1770-1820, is of
milky-white glass decorated in polychrome enamels
with a rustic school on one side and a scholar with two
attendants on the other, the foot inscribed in red with
Guyue xuan (Ancient Moon Pavilion) in standard script.

2º , 3¿ and 1æ in. (5.7, 8 and 4.5 cm.) high, glass and

quartz stoppers (3)

$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE

First bottle: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11 March 1993, lot 158.

Robert Hall, London, 2012.

Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,

Massachusetts, no. 5346.

Second bottle: Hartman Rare Art, New York.

Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2010.

515 Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,

Massachusetts, no. 5102.

Third bottle: Lawrence Souks, Paris.

Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2009

(mark) Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,

Massachusetts, no. 4914.

䍆≢袐虈蚔聖㌉Ӳ։

70