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AN EMBELLISHED BANDED-AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
EMBELLISHMENT, TSUDA FAMILY, KYOTO, JAPAN, 1900-1935;
BOTTLE, CHINA, 1770-1880
The bottle is carved from attractive honey-brown stone with horizontal bands of cream,
gold and russet color, and is embellished with applied carved hardstones, lacquer and gilt
with a boy peering out from behind a foor screen on one side, and on the reverse with
a lady standing at a table set with tea and peaches.
2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 2000.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2918.
A number of theories surrounding the Tsuda family are discussed at length in the entries
to related bottles in Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuf Bottles: The Mary
and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 7, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2009, pp. 563-74, nos. 1703-6.
For other examples of this embellished group, from the Collection of The Sanctum of
Enlightened Respect, see JICSBS, Autumn 1999, Baltimore, front cover. Two other fnely
embellished examples from the J & J Collection were sold at Christie’s New York,
29 March 2006, lot 40, and 22 March 2007, lot 15.
1770-1880年 瑪瑙嵌寶人物故事圖鼻煙壺
嵌飾: 1900-1935年 日本京都津田家族作

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