5th Mar, 2021 10:00
TWO-DAY AUCTION - Fine Chinese Art / 中國藝術集珍 / Buddhism & Hinduism
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A GOLD-SPLASHED AMBER GLASS ‘DOUBLE ELEPHANT’ SNUFF BOTTLE, POSSIBLY IMPERIAL, QING DYNASTY
清代金斑琥珀色料太平有象鼻烟壺, 或爲御制
Sold for €2,275
including Buyer's Premium
China, 1770-1850. Skillfully carved in the form of two caparisoned elephants wearing textiles finely incised with diaper patterns, their heads turned beneath a ruyi-lappet band at the neck, the transparent amber glass splashed with gold foil.
Provenance: From the collection of Mary Ann Edmondson Bresee (1932-2017), Georgia, USA, avid collector and former member of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society. Her grandfather was Walter T. Candler, son of Asa G. Candler, the founder of the Coca-Cola Company. Her bottles were exhibited both at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens and the Norton Museum of Art.
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, microscopic nibbling to mouth.
Stopper: Serpentine cabochon with nicely carved and stained spoon
Weight: 41.3 g
Dimensions: Height including stopper 66 mm. Diameter neck 11 mm and mouth 6 mm
The flattened ovoid body rising from four elephant feet to a short waisted neck with a concave top.
Caparisoned elephants were a popular Qing imperial motif. Snuff bottles carved with this motif are usually found in nephrite. Glass examples of the type are generally yellow. It is very rare to find this elephant motif in amber-colored glass.
Literature comparison: For a similar pachyderm-form glass bottle see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 5, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2002, pp. 395-396, no. 856.
Auction result comparison: Compare with a related glass snuff bottle carved as a caparisoned elephant at Christie’s New York in The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part IV on 15 March 2017, lot 336, sold for USD 9,375, and another at Christie’s New York in The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part II on 16 March 2016, lot 448, sold for USD 5,625.
清代金斑琥珀色料太平有象鼻烟壺, 或爲御制
中國，1770-1850年。巧雕太平有象圖，大象頭部轉過，頸部修飾如意紋，透明的琥珀色玻璃上濺有金箔。
來源：美國佐治亞州Mary Ann Edmondson Bresee（1932-2017）收藏。她曾是國際中國鼻煙壺協會的會員。 其祖父是Walter T. Candler，可口可樂公司創始人Asa G.Candler的兒子。 她的鼻烟壺在Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens博物館和Norton Museum of Art博物館均有展出。
圖片：Mary Ann Edmondson Bresee (1932-2017)
品相：品相極好，輕微磨損，唇部小磕損
壺蓋：蛇紋石壺蓋，雕刻精緻的小壺匙
重量：41.3 克
尺寸：總高66 毫米；頸部直徑11 毫米；嘴部直徑6 毫米
拍賣結果比較：一件料器太平有象鼻烟壺見紐約佳士得The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part IV 拍場2017年3月15日lot 336, 售價USD 9,375；另一件見紐約佳士得The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese snuff bottles: Part II拍場2016年3月16日 lot 448, 售價USD 5,625.
China, 1770-1850. Skillfully carved in the form of two caparisoned elephants wearing textiles finely incised with diaper patterns, their heads turned beneath a ruyi-lappet band at the neck, the transparent amber glass splashed with gold foil.
Provenance: From the collection of Mary Ann Edmondson Bresee (1932-2017), Georgia, USA, avid collector and former member of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society. Her grandfather was Walter T. Candler, son of Asa G. Candler, the founder of the Coca-Cola Company. Her bottles were exhibited both at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens and the Norton Museum of Art.
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, microscopic nibbling to mouth.
Stopper: Serpentine cabochon with nicely carved and stained spoon
Weight: 41.3 g
Dimensions: Height including stopper 66 mm. Diameter neck 11 mm and mouth 6 mm
The flattened ovoid body rising from four elephant feet to a short waisted neck with a concave top.
Caparisoned elephants were a popular Qing imperial motif. Snuff bottles carved with this motif are usually found in nephrite. Glass examples of the type are generally yellow. It is very rare to find this elephant motif in amber-colored glass.
Literature comparison: For a similar pachyderm-form glass bottle see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 5, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2002, pp. 395-396, no. 856.
Auction result comparison: Compare with a related glass snuff bottle carved as a caparisoned elephant at Christie’s New York in The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part IV on 15 March 2017, lot 336, sold for USD 9,375, and another at Christie’s New York in The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part II on 16 March 2016, lot 448, sold for USD 5,625.
清代金斑琥珀色料太平有象鼻烟壺, 或爲御制
中國，1770-1850年。巧雕太平有象圖，大象頭部轉過，頸部修飾如意紋，透明的琥珀色玻璃上濺有金箔。
來源：美國佐治亞州Mary Ann Edmondson Bresee（1932-2017）收藏。她曾是國際中國鼻煙壺協會的會員。 其祖父是Walter T. Candler，可口可樂公司創始人Asa G.Candler的兒子。 她的鼻烟壺在Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens博物館和Norton Museum of Art博物館均有展出。
圖片：Mary Ann Edmondson Bresee (1932-2017)
品相：品相極好，輕微磨損，唇部小磕損
壺蓋：蛇紋石壺蓋，雕刻精緻的小壺匙
重量：41.3 克
尺寸：總高66 毫米；頸部直徑11 毫米；嘴部直徑6 毫米
拍賣結果比較：一件料器太平有象鼻烟壺見紐約佳士得The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part IV 拍場2017年3月15日lot 336, 售價USD 9,375；另一件見紐約佳士得The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese snuff bottles: Part II拍場2016年3月16日 lot 448, 售價USD 5,625.
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