ID 718500
Lot 809 | AN ENAMELED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
WANG XISAN, BEIJING, 1964
The bottle is decorated overall with lushly flowering peach branches bearing two large, ripe fruit on either side, all set on a yellow ground beneath a blue key-fret band on the neck. The base has an apocryphal Qianlong mark.
2 1⁄8 in. (5.5 cm.) high, bronze stopper
Provenance
Bob C. Stevens Collection, no. 1029.
The Bob C. Stevens Collection of Fine and Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, Part II; Sotheby’s New York, 26 March 1982, lot 77.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
Literature
H. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles Number Four, London, 1966, p. 41, color pl. M.
B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, no. 1029.
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 72-73, no. 23.
Exhibited
Tokyo, Mikimoto Hall, An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles From The Bob C. Stevens Collection, 22-31 October 1978, cat. no. 370.
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
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| Category: | Scent bottle |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
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| Category: | Scent bottle |
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